8 Ann Street, Gilford, CRAIGAVON, Co Down, BT63 6HX

A two-storey four-bay end-terrace house, built c.1840 and located east of Gilford Mill (HB17/01/020A), north west of Gilford town centre. L-shaped on plan with two-storey extension and single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Pitched and hipped natural slate roof with terracotta ridge, leaded hip and rendered chimneystacks. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods. Walling is painted ruled and lined render with quoins. Windows are replacement 6/6 timber sliding sash with projecting masonry sills (unless otherwise stated). The principal elevation faces south and is four openings wide comprising entrance door to left of centre flanked by a single window to left and two windows to right; four first floor windows directly over ground floor openings. Windows to first and ground floor left are more widely spaced. Six-panelled timber door with brass door furniture, flanked by chamfered jambs and surmounted by segmental fanlight. The west elevation is abutted by adjoining building (HB17/01/021G). The north (rear) elevation comprises a 3/6 timber sliding sash window to first floor right; abutted to ground floor right by a single-storey lean-to extension comprising a casement window to east face; blank north face. Rear elevation abutted to left by a two-storey pitched roof return which partly houses the adjoining building (HB17/01/021I) to the left (facing High Street) and partly the kitchen and a first floor bedroom to left (facing the rear yard); west face has a glazed timber framed door to ground floor and a 3/6 timber sliding sash window to first floor (remainder of this face not viewed). Rear yard enclosed by red-brick wall and accessed via panelled-and-glazed timber door. The east elevation comprises two 6/6 timber casement windows to ground floor and two 3/6 timber sliding sash windows directly over to first floor. Setting: Corner sited at the east entrance of Gilford Mill, north of Gilford town centre, forming part of a terrace of 25 dwellings on Ann Street (excluding the gatelodge No.1 Ann Street). Roof: Natural slate Walling: Render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron