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

Mid-terrace two-storey over basement late eighteenth century stone and brick house, with railed basement area and three-storey rendered return built c.2005. Rectangular on plan facing east located on the west side of Main Street Hillsborough, with semi-detached two-storey stone mews building, now in residential use. Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and single redbrick chimneystack with clay pots. Cast-iron guttering on iron brackets to redbrick eaves course, cast-iron hopper and downpipe shared with adjoining house No.13 (HB19/05/020). Rubblestone walling with lime pointing. Square-headed window openings formed in redbrick with replacement 6/6 timber sash windows and sandstone sills. Front elevation is three windows wide with off-centre front entrance and railed basement area. Elliptical-headed door opening formed in redbrick containing replacement timber panelled door flanked by pair of sidelights with interlacing tracery supporting lintel cornice and original timber webbed fanlight above. Door opens onto two concrete steps bridging basement area enclosed by decorative cast-iron railings, also enclosing basement area on low render plinth wall. Replacement multi-pane timber casement window to basement. South side elevation abutted by No.13. Rear elevation abutted by gabled three-storey cement rendered return and further flat-roofed projection at basement level. Replacement 6/6 timber sash windows to the exposed rubblestone section of the rear elevation, that to the ground floor having exposed sash box. Square-headed door opening to basement level with replacement sheeted half-door and sidelights. Glazed doors to the lower projection all opening onto gravel rear yard. North side elevation abutted by adjoining house No.9 (HB19/05/018) and its carriage arch. Setting: Forming part of a terrace of houses of varying dates lining the west side of Main Street Hillsborough on a sloping site. Semi-detached two-storey rubblestone and redbrick former coach house to rear, now in use as a dwelling with pitched natural slate roof, square-headed window openings formed in modern redbrick with fixed pane windows and a former redbrick carriage arch now used as the front entrance. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Rubblestone / redbrick Windows Replacement timber sash