67 Court Street, Newtownards, Co Down

Modernised three bay two storey terraced house on the South side of Court Street, 40 m from Newtownards Priory. The front elevation is rendered with pebble dash with a hardwood partially glazed door with sidelights to the right and a central top hung picture window to the centre. To the left is a square headed vehicular entrance with painted timber doors. There are three further windows to the first floor - all uPVC. The roof is covered with fibre cement slates and there is a plain smooth rendered off centre chimney stack. The rear elevation is smooth rendered with a series of irregularly sized and positioned steel top hung windows to the frst floor and a uPVC one to the ground floor. To the left is a single storey lean-to return with a uPVC door and window. Beyond the return and attached to it, is a lean-to open sided store and beyond that a small stone walled store with a pitched roof which is heavily overgrown. This store may date from the original construction of Court Street in the 1840's. The rear garden is rectangular and very long with a large mid-twentieth century lightweight builder's workshop constructed of smooth rendered concrete block walls and a corrugated sheet roof. At the bottom of the garden is a further lean to shed, of little architectural interest. Setting: This house which was substantially modernised in the mid-twentith century stands towards the Eastern end of a terrace of two storey rendered houses that were constructed in the 1840's and are now within the Court Street/Court Square Area of Townscape Character. Some of these have been demolished and some of the remainder are in poor condition. To the East, 40m, is the former Newtownards Dominican Priory, a Monument in State Care.