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

Mid terrace two-bay three-storey redbrick former house, built c.1780, on the summit of the east side of Main Street Hillsborough. Rectangular on plan facing west with an angled front elevation, integral carriage arch to the south bay and two-storey rendered return. Ground floor in commercial use. Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and slightly angled. Redbrick chimneystack to the north gable with clay pots and replacement metal rainwater goods and timber fascia. Redbrick walling laid in English garden wall bond with cement pointing to front and rear, painted render walling to return. Square-headed window openings to brick flat-arches, painted masonry sills and replacement 6/6 timber sash windows with exposed sash boxes. Front west elevation is three windows wide with central painted neo-classical doorcase. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber glazed door and rectangular overlight flanked by pair of flat-panelled pilasters supporting plain frieze and drip cornice over, supported on series of console brackets. Elliptical-headed carriage arch formed in redbrick with pair of vertically-sheeted timber doors. Above the carriage arch is a window opening with a further elliptical-headed brick relieving arch visible. North side elevation abutted by adjoining building No.30 (HB19/05/013B) with the redbrick gable rising above the roof of the neighbouring house. Rear redbrick elevation abutted by rendered two-storey gable-ended return. Above the rear carriage arch is a window opening with a further elliptical-headed brick arch visible above, suggesting an earlier double-height carriage arch. The return has 6/6 timber sash windows to the rear gable and 2/2 timber sash windows to the remainder. Multi-pane timber casement window to the south elevation of the return. South side elevation abutted by adjoining building No.1 The Square (HB19/05/031A) with painted rubblestone and brick walling visible to the carriage arch. Setting: Terminating the terrace lining the east side of Main Street as it joins the east side of The Square. Rear yard enclosed in rubble walling with original landscaped plot extending to boundary of Hillsborough Fort. Roof Natural slate RWG Replacement metal Walling Redbrick Windows Replacement timber sash