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

Mid-terrace two-bay two-storey rendered eighteenth century former pair of houses, located on the east side of Main Street Hillsborough with front railed platform. Rectangular on plan facing west with single and two-storey flat-roofed extension to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and rendered chimneystack shared with adjoining house No.22 (HB19/05/12A). Cast-iron guttering on iron brackets to rendered eaves. Painted pebble-dash rendered walling with smooth render plinth course to ground floor sill level. Square-headed window openings with smooth render surrounds, concrete sills and replacement timber sash windows. Front elevation is four windows wide abutted by rendered platform, providing level access from the sloping street and bounded by a wrought-iron railing and gate. Tripartite and bipartite timber sash windows to the ground floor and square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door and rectangular leaded overlight, opening onto tiled step and tiled platform. North side elevation abutted by adjoining house No.22 (HB19/05/012A). Rear elevation abutted by single and two-storey flat-roofed extension with felt-covered roof, pebble-dash rendered walling and replacement timber casement windows. Timber glazed door opens onto three tiled steps to rear patio. South side elevation abutted by adjoining building No.28 (HB19/05/013A). Setting: Formerly two houses among a terrace of varied terraced housing lining the east side of Main Street on a sloping site as it meets The Square. The rear plot has been sold off to neighbouring properties with a pair of paved patios remaining to the rear. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Pebble-dash render Windows Replacement timber sash