46 Meeting Street, Dromore, Co Down, BT25 1AJ

Three small non-identical brick-built terrace houses erected in 1887 at 46 Meeting Street, Dromore, with the middle house (no. 42) incorporating a large vehicle archway. They represent an example of urban vernacular increasingly rare in the locality.

The grouping is set within the terrace on the sloping west side of Meeting Street, to the south-east of Dromore town centre. The front elevation faces roughly east, with no. 46 positioned on the higher level to the south end.

No. 46 has a front façade in painted brick. The ground floor entrance to the right of the front elevation is a recent PVC door with narrow fanlight. To the left is a window with PVC frame; this window now occupies the position once taken by a doorway, the positions having been recently swapped. To the first floor is a single off-centre window. To the rear is a large two-storey extension with flat roof. The west face of the extension has a PVC door and small PVC-framed window to ground floor and a larger PVC-framed window to first floor. The west face of the return is finished in painted rough cast, the north face in plain painted render. The south face could not be seen. The roof is slated with a single brick chimney stack to the north. Metal rainwater goods are fitted to the front and PVC goods to the rear.

All three houses now have PVC windows and doors.

The site was previously occupied from circa 1863 by a single-storey dwelling and an earlier two-storey house. To the rear stood McComb's Court, a small courtyard containing four dwellings on the west side. By the 1880s this court and the two houses fronting Meeting Street had been abandoned or fallen into ruin. In 1887 they were demolished and replaced by the present three brick-built two-storey houses with a large two-storey outbuilding constructed on the site of McComb's Court. Documentary sources record John Murphy as the original occupant of no. 42, with George Bennett and William McCann occupying nos. 44 and 46 respectively in 1891.