7 Main Street, Hillsborough, County Down, BT26 6AE

Mid-terrace symmetrical three-bay two-storey early nineteenth-century red brick house with attic over railed basement, built early 19th century and remodelled c.1878. Rectangular on plan facing east on the west side of Main Street, Hillsborough. Pitched natural slate roof with lead ridges and pair of rebuilt brick chimneystacks to either end and three lead-lined dormers to rear pitch. Cast-iron guttering on iron brackets to stepped brick eaves course and cast-iron downpipe. Redbrick walling laid in Flemish bond with cement pointing, lime-wash rubblestone walling to basement. Square-headed window openings with original 8/8 timber sash windows (re-glazed with imperfect glass), and painted masonry sills. Front elevation is three windows wide with a central round-headed door opening containing original timber tripartite doorcase. Timber door with four flat panels and iron furniture flanked by pair of sidelights and slender panelled pilasters supporting lintel cornice and webbed timber fanlight over. Door opens onto granite step and granite flag bridging basement area, flanked by decorative cast-iron railing embedded into low granite plint wall enclosing basement area to either side. Various original timber sash windows and masonry sills to basement level. Cast-iron former RUC wall-mounted street light attached to front elevation. South side elevation abutted by No.9 (HB19/05/018). Rear elevation is three windows wide with a central double-height round-headed stairhall window, reinstated c.1990. Remaining windows are camber-headed with timber sash windows, 6/6 to the ground floor, 8/8 to the first floor and originally 6/3 to the attic dormers. Rear elevation abutted by timber-frame conservatory to the basement level. North side elevation abutted by No.5 (HB19/05/016). Carriage arch to No.5 reveals painted brick and rubblestone north party wall. Setting: Facing east as part of a terrace of varying house types lining the west side of Main Street, Hillsborough at the foot of the hill. Single-storey slated garage structure to rear yard also enclosed to the west by a two-storey rubblestone former coach-house with replacement roof and replacement steel casement windows. Single storey 20th century glass house to west of outbuildings with original brick, timber and glass frame and piped heating system and bolier house. Site extends as a long landscaped garden to the west. Rear accessed via carriage arch to No.5.