36 High Street, Donaghadee, Co. Down

Relatively large two storey terraced house on the NE side of the S end of High Street, probably built c.1870. Front SW facade has a right of centre doorway with incised pilasters, matching (Greek key pattern) decorative frieze and cornice. This encases a panelled door, the upper panels of which are glazed. Plain fanlight. To the right of the house doorway is a plain sheeted timber door, giving access to a narrow entry to the rear. To the left of the house doorway are two sliding sash windows. To the first floor are three unevenly spaced sliding sash windows, resting on a cill course with brackets, and with a moulded course to window heads. The front facade is finished in lined render with chamfered quoins to ground floor level. Dentilled eaves course and chamfered plinth. The exposed section of the SE gable is rendered. To the left of centre at the rear is a full height gabled stairwell projection, with a sliding sash window at the two landing levels. To the right of this (on the rear of the main building) is a sliding sash window to ground and to first floor. To the far right on the ground floor is a single storey gabled kitchen return with a partly glazed door and large modern kitchen window to its SE face. To the left hand side of the main rear face is a sliding sash window to the first floor and a timber sheeted and glazed door, with plain fanlight, to the ground floor (giving access to the entry. The rear facade is finished in rough cast. All roofs are gabled and have Bangor blue slates, however the slates to the front of the main roof have a less refined ‘Tullycavey’ appearance. Rendered parapets. There are dummy (i.e. they appear to have no glass) skylights to the front of the roof. Two rendered chimney stacks. Cast iron rw goods.