Friends’ Meeting House, Park Street, Hillsborough, Co. Antrim, BT26 6AL

Free-standing single-bay single-storey stone Quaker Meeting House, built c.1836. Rectangular on plan, facing north, set within its own walled grounds on the south side of Park Street with burial ground to rear. Pitched natural slate roof, black clay ridge tiles, single stone chimneystack to west end and cement parged verges. Cast-iron guttering on steel brackets to redbrick eaves course and cast-iron downpipes attached with iron brackets. Snecked coursed rubble basalt walling with rough-hewn quoins, uncoursed to rear and side elevations. Square-headed window openings with flush rendered reveals, redbrick surrounds, masonry sills and original 6/6 timber sash windows with cylinder glass. Principal north elevation is three windows wide with off-centre square-headed door opening formed in redbrick with rendered plinth blocks and original flat-panelled timber door with iron furniture. East gable is blank with cement render to the upper half, having been recently removed from the lower half. Rear elevation is four windows wide of a symmetrical composition. West gable is blank with exposed stone walling. Setting: Set within a square plot enclosed by tall rubblestone walls and laid out in grass with concrete footpaths and a small number of plain stone and marble upstanding grave-markers. A two-storey rendered caretakers’ cottage is located adjacent to the entrance to the northwest corner of the site, while the entrance is via a pair of sheeted timber gates on tall rendered piers to Park Street. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Coursed and uncoursed rubble basalt Windows Original 6/6 timber sash