86 Dromara Road, Hillsborough, County Down, BT26 6PE

Semi-detached single-storey with attic stone house, dated 1841, in a loose Tudor idiom. Rectangular on plan facing east and set back on the south side of Dromara Road, built as a single house with No.84 (HB19/05/122A). Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles, a rebuilt redbrick chimneystack with terracotta pots and cast-iron rainwater goods to deep timber eaves. Decorative timber bargeboard to north and south gables. Snecked coursed rubblestone walling, cement pointing, rusticated ashlar quoins and painted brick surrounds to all openings. Camber-headed window openings with painted masonry hood mouldings, painted masonry sills and timber casement windows having some cylinder glass. Symmetrical front elevation has a central square-headed door opening flanked by window openings, all having painted masonry hood mouldings. Replacement timber panelled door opening onto single concrete step. Gabled south side elevation abutted by lean-to extension and outbuilding with single square-headed window opening at attic level with painted rendered walling. Rear elevation abutted by neighbouring house No.84 (HB19/05/122A). Gabled north side elevation has a single window opening to each floor with a hood moulding to the ground floor only. Setting: Concrete paved front area and footpath through front lawn enclosed to narrow avenue to east by hedging and decorative iron pedestrian gate. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Snecked coursed rubblestone Windows Timber casement