97-99 Mill Street, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5EG

A rubble-built two-storey vernacular terrace house with a former shop, situated on the curved corner of Mill Street and Belfast Road to the west of Comber town centre. The building probably began life as a single storey structure but was raised in height around 1860, when the matching terrace to the north side appears to have been constructed.

The front south-west facing façade has a recent timber-panelled and glazed door to the centre, encased with a painted stone surround and cornice. To the left is a recently replaced shop front with traditional styling, featuring fluted pilasters, a panelled stall riser, panelled and glazed door, and arched lights to the window. Above is a carved sign board with a head to each side resembling the water gods from James Gandon's Custom House of 1786 in Dublin. To the right of the entrance door is a window with a PVC frame. The first floor has four similar windows, unevenly spaced. The lower half of the façade is constructed in greywacke rubble; the upper half is in sandstone. All house windows throughout are now fitted with PVC frames.

The south-east gable is blank and now almost entirely covered in ivy growth. The rear façade has a modern single-storey lean-to extension with patio doors and render finish. To the left of this is a very small lean-to projection which is blank. Two PVC-framed windows are positioned to the first floor of the rear façade; the window to the left is quite small and appears to have been reduced in size due to the height of the lean-to roof. The upper portion of the rear façade is in sandstone rubble.

The gabled roof is covered in asbestos slates with natural slate to the lean-tos. Two recent brick chimney stacks with tall octagonal pots are present. Metal rainwater goods are fitted throughout.

The building does not appear on the Ordnance Survey map of 1834 but is shown on the 1838 map accompanying annotations to the first valuation. The front façade confirms the building was originally single storey, with the heightening to two storeys taking place around 1860.