Summer House, Hillsborough Castle, The Square, Hillsborough, County Down, BT26 6AG

Free-standing stone temple, erected c.1850 as a garden summer house. Rectangular on plan facing west, terminating the east end of the terrace to the south garden front of Hillsborough Castle (HB19/05/076A). Greek Doric stone ashlar summer house with pedimented tetrastyle front and pair of screen walls. Lead-lined stone roof to full pediment and full Doric entablature including triglyphs and metopes with guttae. The cornice base to the pediment has mutules with guttae and anthemia to the corners. The plain architrave is supported on four fluted Greek Doric columns with entasis and resting on plain stone base. Mosaic tiled floor within the structure in Roman style with visible stone flagged roof, brick to rear pediment and four timber beams. The Greek Doric frieze and pediment is repeated to the rear with plain ashlar stonework walling having a capital moulding to unfinished corner piers. To the south screeen wall, below architrave level, the frieze continues to a blind square-headed panel with shallow Doric pilasters. The south screen wall has a blind niche to its south elevation. Setting: Located at the easternmost end of the south garden elevation to Hillsborough Castle, terminating the elevated terrace with a flight of stone steps abutting its south screen wall. The structure sits behind the boundary wall to the south end of The Square. Roof Lead-lined stone flaggs Walling Stone ashlar