46-52 Carnesure Terrace, Carnesure, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5PE

Carnesure Terrace at Comber comprises a group of two-storey terraced dwellings built around 1904 by John Andrews & Co. for workers at the company's nearby spinning mill. The section at numbers 46-52 is a slightly picturesque and attractively sited terrace arranged in handed pairs with a notably rural setting, long gardens to front and rear, and considerable distance from the roadside.

The terrace numbers 46-52 are largely identical in design. Each pair shares a central gabled porch to the front (west) façade with a doorway to north and south serving the respective properties. The doorways have moulded surrounds with keystones; only numbers 48-50 retain their original panelled doors, while the remainder have modern glazed types. The gabled front face of each porch displays a pair of semicircular arch-headed window openings with sash frames and linked label moulding above. The porches are finished in Bangor blue slates with decorative shaped barges, small tie-beams and finials.

The front façade of each house contains two first-floor sash windows with vertical glazing bars and a further ground-floor window to either side of the porch. The first-floor windows of number 52 have been recently fitted with top-hung frames made to resemble the original sash windows. To the rear, each pair of houses has a two-storey gabled return with a door and at least one kitchen window to the ground floor, one window to the first floor near the intersection with the main house, and one to the first floor of the gable with two windows in total to the gable. The rear of the main houses each have a single window to ground and first floor. The window frames at the rear are largely similar to the front, though some of number 50's are modern. The rear yards of numbers 46 and 52 are now largely covered in. The gables of the returns feature small single-storey lean-to structures that were formerly outside toilets.

The entire façade is finished in lined render to the front with plain render to the rear, unpainted at the front and whitewashed in a few rear yards. The north and south gables are rendered. Chamfered quoins face the front. An eaves course runs around. The roof is covered in Bangor blue slates with rainwater goods of cast iron and PVC, the latter mainly to the rear. Rendered chimney stacks support original octagonal pots.

To the north of this section is a terraced block of four further two-storey houses (numbers 14-22), also built by John Andrews & Co. around the same time. This section employs a different, more utilitarian design without shared porches but with single-storey flat-roofed bays.

A small stream lies to the west of the terrace crossed by a rubble-built bridge carrying the road.

The townland of Carnesure was purchased in the late 18th century by John Andrews, a previous generation of the family, who had won £10,000 in the Irish State Lottery in 1783. The bulk of the terrace was constructed in 1904 as workers' housing for the Andrews spinning mill nearby.