158 High Street, Holywood, Co Down, BT18 9HT

A semi-detached three-bay two-storey with dormered attic red-brick Victorian house, built c.1890 and located east of Old Belfast Road on the outskirts of Holywood town centre. Square on plan with two-storey extension to rear under cat-slide roof; canted and box bay to front and canted bay to south; detached outbuilding to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with decorative terracotta ridge tiles and red brick chimneystacks; timber eaves board on bracketed eaves and decorative bargeboard to gable. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods with hopper. Walling is Flemish-bonded red brick; continuous moulded sill to first floor. Windows are 1/1 timber-framed sliding sash; segmental-headed to first floor with voussoir heads; bay windows have continuous painted stone lintels and continuous sills topped with moulded architraves and cornice; two Dutch-style gabled dormers with ball finials and slate-hung cheeks. The principal elevation faces west and is symmetrically arranged. Paired windows to first floor left and right, over box bay to left and canted bay to right. Single window over entrance comprising six-panelled timber door having brass door furniture and surmounted by plain fanlight; door surround is recessed with brick voussoirs over, comprising two polished granite colonnettes with moulded stone bands to wall and supported on stepped stone plinth; surmounted by round-headed arch with stone detailing and moulded plinths; carved head stops at springing level. Entrance accessed by four masonry steps enclosed by dwarf wall. The north elevation is abutted by adjoining building; HB23/19/026B. The east (rear) elevation has two-storey extension under cat-slide roof to right; having three timber-framed window openings to first floor (ground floor is concealed); south elevation has 1/1 window to first floor. To left is single-storey lean-to with chimney rising from wall above. The south elevation has window to left and canted bay to right at ground floor; window to first floor left and paired windows to right; two round-headed diminutive windows to attic; to left is raised chimney flue terminating in decorative corbel bracket at left attic window. Setting Set on a slightly elevated site with lawned garden to front and rear enclosed by mature hedgerow. Entrance has two brick gate piers with pointed masonry caps and early decorative cast-iron gates. One-and-a-half storey outbuilding to rear yard, having slated hipped roof with terracotta ridge tiles and decorative bargeboard; west elevation has wall-head dormer (ground floor concealed); south elevation has vented window over roller garage door; two diminutive windows to east elevation. Rear yard enclosed by partially stepped red brick wall with two tall brick gate piers having sandstone bands and pointed caps; supporting modern timber-sheeted gates. Roof: Natural slate Walling: brick Windows: timber RWG: Cast-iron