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

Mid-terrace two-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1760. Rectangular on plan facing west lining the east side of Main Street, Hillsborough with lower two-storey return and large rear garden. Pitched natural slate roof, black clay ridge tiles, redbrick chimneystack to north and cast-iron rainwater goods on iron brackets to brick eaves course. Painted rough-cast rendered walling, battered to the front elevation with plain render quoins. Rubblestone to north gable wall rising above neighbouring house. Square-headed window openings with smooth render surrounds, painted masonry sills and original early timber sash windows with exposed sash boxes and historic glass. Front west elevation is four windows wide with square-headed door opening to the right having smooth render surround and original vertically-sheeted timber door with brass furniture, rectangular overlight and opening onto single concrete step. 9/6 windows to the first floor, 9/9 to the ground floor. North side elevation abutted by adjoining building No.24 (HB19/05/012). Rear elevation has a catslide roof to a stairhall projection with the remainder of the facade abutted by a gable-fronted two-storey return and a modern timber-frame conservatory to the re-entrant angle. Rough-cast render walling with original timber sash windows and concrete sills to the return. South side elevation abutted by adjoining building No.30 (HB19/05/013B). Setting: Part of a pair of interlocking houses and set among a terrace of varying dates and scale lining the east side of the main street of Hillsborough as it rises to meet The Square.Original large rear garden extends to East. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron / plastic Walling Rough-cast render Windows Original timber sash