Candy Plum, 4-6 Main Street, Hillsborough, County Down, BT26 6AE

A mid-terrace three-bay two-storey-with-attic former house, with early shop-front and integrated carriage-arch; built c. 1790 and located east of Main Street in Hillsborough town centre. Rectangular on plan with slightly projecting shop-front to west; full-height return and two-storey modern extension to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and replacement brick chimneystacks. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on ovolo moulded eaves course. Walling is painted smooth render with moulded string course between first and attic floor, moulded volutes to either side of central gable. Windows are 1/1 timber framed sliding sash with horns and projecting masonry sills; segmental-headed to gable at attic, decorative bargeboards and finials to wall-head dormers; plate glass windows to ground-floor shop-front. The principal elevation faces west; shop-front and carriageway to ground floor with five windows to first floor; paired round-headed windows to central gable at attic, flanked by two wall-head dormer windows. The shop-front comprises two plate-glass windows enclosed by channelled pilaster jambs and flanking a central recessed doorway. Door is glazed-and-half-panelled with transom light; geometric coloured tiles and timber-sheeted ceiling to porch; surmounted by a plain fascia with modern applied lettering and cornice. Carriage-arch to left has moulded archivolt with triple keyblock. To far right is recessed five-panelled timber door with brass door furniture surmounted by grille fanlight and accessed via two stone steps; moulded surround with triple keyblock, as in carriage entrance. The north elevation is abutted at ground floor by lower adjoining building. Exposed section is blank. The east (rear) elevation is abutted to centre by the return and to right by the flat-roof two-storey extension, which is further abutted by a smaller more modern L-shaped extension (of no interest). To right; carriage arch to ground floor, two windows to first floor and 3/3 dormer window to attic. Return has timber casement window to ground floor, and two windows to first floor and attic. Decorative brickwork to flue with replacement chimneystacks to gable. The north elevation has window to ground and first floor. The flat-roof extension has a continuous plate glass window to attic level. The south elevation is to ground floor abutted by an adjoining building. Setting: Prominently situated on the main thoroughfare in Hillsborough forming part of a well-preserved eighteenth-century terrace leading up to Hillsborough courthouse and Hillsborough castle (HB19/05/076). Overlooking Hillsborough Parish Church (HB19/05/001) to rear. Carriage-arch opens to gravelled rear car-park enclosed by hedgerow and rendered party wall to north. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Smooth render Windows: 1/1 timber-framed sash RWG: Cast-iron