Dunbarton Street Presbyterian Church, 64 Dunbarton Street, Gilford, Co Down, BT63 6HJ

Detached double-height Presbyterian Church, dated 1845, located on an elevated site to the north side of Dunbarton Street, Gilford. Rectangular-on-plan with single-storey extension to north, built c.2000. Roof is pitched natural slate with blue-black clay ridge tiles over corbelled eaves; raised verge parapet to south gable; rendered chimney to north gable; painted cast-iron gutters. Walling is ruled-and-lined render over projecting plinth; painted roughcast render to south elevation. Windows are square-headed 10/10 timber sliding sashes at ground floor; round-arched at first floor; all have stone sills, unless otherwise stated. Principal gable faces south and comprises central entrance bay containing double-leaf timber panelled entrance doors with glazed overlight in square-headed opening with moulded stone reveal surmounted by flat pediment supported on console brackets; single window at first floor; flanked by double-height pilasters; left and right bays each containing single window at each floor and again flanked by double-height pilasters; gable surmounted by plain frieze, with datestone reading ‘1845’, to moulded cornice; triangular pediment over breakfront central bay. West elevation is five windows wide. North gable is abutted at ground floor by extension; exposed section at first floor contains single window at left and right. East elevation is five windows wide. Setting: The church is set on an elevated site bounded to Dunbarton Street at south by coursed reconstituted stone boundary walls with concrete coping; access through double-leaf cast-iron gates supported on square piers, to ramped approach to principal entrance. Site bounded to east and west by rubble stone walling; bounded to north by timber fencing. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron