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

Mid-terrace symmetrical three-bay two-storey early-nineteenth-century rendered house. Rectangular on plan facing west on the east side of Main Street, Hillsborough on a sloping site. Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and rendered chimneystack with clay pots to the north. Cast-iron guttering on iron brackets and cast-iron downpipes. Painted ruled and lined rendered walling with stepped plinth course and rusticated render quoins. Square-headed window openings with painted masonry sills and original tripartite timber sash windows with cylinder glass. Front elevation is three windows wide with a central round-headed door opening with deep moulded architrave surround, timber door with four raised and fielded panels, brass furniture, spoked fanlight, single granite step and wrought-iron bootscraper. North gable abutted by adjoining property No.16 (HB19/05/009). Rear elevation is abutted by a stairhall projection having a catslide roof and a pair of lean-to extensions to either side. Early 6/6 timber sash windows to the upper level with exposed sash boxes. Replacement timber casement windows to the ground floor and pair of replacement glazed timber panelled doors. South gable abutted by adjoining property No.20 (HB19/05/011). Setting: Forming part of a terrace of varying house types lining the east side of Main Street, Hillsborough on a sloping site. To the rear is a cobbled yard with original rubble stone and brick walling and a two-storey rendered former outbuilding with natural slate roof and replacement timber casement windows with a central arched passageway to the original landscaped garden beyond. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Painted ruled and lined Windows Tripartite timber sash