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

End of terrace two-storey over basement with attic-storey redbrick house, built c.1820, with integrated carriage arch. Irregular on plan, facing east terminating a terrace of varied houses lining the west side of Main Street Hillsborough. Pitched natural slate roof, black clay ridge tiles and rebuilt redbrick chimneystack with terracotta pots. Cast-iron guttering on iron brackets to stepped redbrick eaves course and cast-iron downpipe. Redbrick walling laid in Flemish bond with cement pointing, rendered to side and rear elevations. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered surrounds, brick jack arches, painted masonry sills and timber sash windows with cylinder and horticultural glass. Front east elevation, two windows wide with integrated three-centred carriage arch to the south bay and railed basement area. Ground floor window and door openings below voussoired brick flat-arch remaining from an earlier commercial shopfront. Round-headed door opening with deep moulded architrave surround, impost mouldings and containing a four-panelled timber door with brass furniture and webbed timber fanlight with original glazing. Door opens onto paved platform bridging basement enclosed by original cast-iron railings embedded into low sandstone plinth wall. Original vertically-sheeted double-leaf doors to carriage arch with cement and stone paving. South side elevation abutted by adjoining house No.7 (HB19/05/017). Rear west elevation, three windows wide, with carriage arch opening sloping to basement level. Painted rendered walling with a double-height round-headed stairhall window opening having original multi-pane timber glazing. 6/6 timber sash windows to all windows except 8/8 to the basement window. Segmental-headed door opening at basement level with deep moulded surround and glazed panelled timber door with replacement console brackets, lintel cornice and original spoked fanlight. Blank painted rendered north gable fronting onto public paved area in front of park. Setting: Terminating the north end of a terrace of varying house types lining the west side of Main Street. The rear of the house opens onto a paved rear terrace overlooking an extensively landscaped rear plot enclosed by tall rubblestone wall to the north boundary. Small narrow modern single storey lean-to extension with natural slate roof attached to rear west elevation and lining original north boundary wall. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Redbrick / rendered Windows 8/8 and 6/6 timber sash windows