52-82 Brownlow Street, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5ER is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.

52-82 Brownlow Street, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5ER

WRENN ID
ragged-mantel-gorse
Grade
Record Only
Local Planning Authority
Ards and North Down
Constituency
Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
Country
Northern Ireland
Address
52-82 Brownlow Street, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5ER, Town Parks, BT23 5ER
Irish grid reference
J 452 691
Coordinates
54.54982, -5.75635
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

A long two-storey terrace of 16 houses built around 1910 on the east side of Brownlow Street in Comber, erected as workers' housing for the nearby Andrews' flax spinning mill. A matching terrace stands on the opposite side of the street.

Each house is set on a slight slope rising from south to north. The front façade of every property retains largely original character. The doorway to the right of each house features plain pilasters with decorative capitals and a moulded semicircular archivolt with keystone, with most houses still retaining their original panelled doors (though some have been replaced with modern partly glazed examples). Each doorway is surmounted by a semicircular fanlight. To the left of the doorway projects a single-storey flat-roofed bay. These bays alternate in type: every second house has a square bay with two segmental arched window openings to the front and one (slightly narrower) to each side, while the remaining houses have a canted bay with similar windows to the sides. Both bay types have a cill course and a cornice with parapet above.

The first floor contains two windows, positioned closely together. These were originally sash windows with six panes over one in Edwardian fashion, but many have since been replaced with modern top-opener PVC or timber frames. The front façade is finished in lined render and painted, with eaves course and base to bays.

Rear façades are generally in plain cement render, some painted. Most houses contain two first-floor windows, though some retain a single window (the original arrangement before later partitioning created bathrooms). Ground-floor openings vary between one and two windows, with the doorway positioned centrally in properties with two windows. A mixture of original sash and modern windows remains throughout, and most ground-floor doors are now modern glazed examples. Enclosed yards occupy the rear of each property, and some houses have single-storey bathroom extensions added to the rear.

The north and south gables of the terrace are blank. Roofs are gabled with natural slate, each house topped by a single rendered chimney stack. Rainwater goods throughout the terrace remain largely original cast iron, with some PVC elements, particularly to the rear.

Local climate

52-82 Brownlow Street, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5ER sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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