46 Shore Road, Portaferry, Co Down, BT22 1JZ

46 Shore Road is a fine two-storey late Georgian terrace house of around 1825, with attic storey, set on the east side of Shore Road south of Portaferry town centre. The property was probably built as a Methodist manse.

The front façade faces roughly west and is asymmetrical in composition. Slightly right of centre sits the main entrance doorway, which features a timber panel door with simple pilasters, entablature and cornice. To the left is a tripartite sliding sash window with broad mullions and Georgian panes, and to the right a single sliding sash window with similar panes. All windows are set on stone cills supported by console brackets. Three additional windows occupy the ground floor to the right of the entrance. The front façade is finished in unpainted lined render with moulded quoins.

The rear façade is plainer in treatment, finished in unpainted render. To the ground floor left are a pair of modern French doors, with a small window with fixed light frame to their right, and a large modern single-storey extension beyond that. The first floor rear features a small window with modern frame to the left, two stairwell windows in the centre, and a first floor window to the right. The gabled roof is covered in Bangor blue slates. Two early twentieth-century gabled dormers with sliding sash windows and decorative barges and finials adorn the front roof slope. The rear roof has a modern flat-roofed dormer and large Velux window. Two yellow brick chimneys with bracketed corbelling run through the roof. Cast iron guttering and downspouts, with an eaves course, detail the roofline. The modern rear extension has a hipped roof also covered in Bangor blue slates.

A building in possession of Thomas Savage is shown on this site in Patrick O'Hare's 1799 map of Portaferry. The present house was formerly the Methodist manse and is likely the newly built dwelling of the same dimensions recorded in the 1838 valuation returns as the residence of Reverend Mr. Smyley. Photographic evidence indicates the dormers are early twentieth-century additions.