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

Mid-terrace two-bay two-storey over basement with attic, mid - eighteenth-century rendered former house, formerly a single house with No.12 (HB19/05/008A). Rectangular on plan facing west with railed front and rear basement areas. Renovated c.2000 with the rear plot developed for residential use. Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles, redbrick chimneystack to the south and flat-roofed dormer windows to the rear pitch. Cast-iron guttering on iron brackets to moulded masonry eaves course. Painted pebble-dash rendered walling with rusticated rendered quoins to the south only, smooth rendered to the basement level and rear elevation. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered surrounds, painted masonry sills and 6/6 timber sash windows with exposed sash boxes. Front west elevation is four windows wide with the north two bays and entrance to a shallow breakfront beneath single eaves level and shared with adjoining house. Round-headed door opening with smooth rendered surround, replacement timber panelled and glazed door with original webbed timber fanlight over. Door opens onto single concrete step flanked by decorative cast-iron railings on low plinth wall enclosing basement area with iron supporting brackets. Clay riles to basement area with slightly battered walls. North elevation abutted by No.12 (HB19/05/008A). Rear elevation is three windows wide with mid twentieth-century flat-roofed dormer window spanning entire elevation and a rear railed basement area accessed via flight of granite steps to the north. UPVC windows to dormer, original 6/6 timber sash windows to first floor and replacement timber casement windows to the ground floor and basement. Timber glazed door to basement level opens onto stone flagged basement area enclosed by retaining wall with stone coping and simple iron railing. South side elevation abutted by adjoining building No.16 (HB19/05/009). Setting: Previously forming one large house with No.12 on the east side of Main Street facing west on a steep incline of the street. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Pebble-dash render Windows 6/6 timber sash