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

Mid terrace two-storey three-bay early nineteenth-century stone and brick house, located on the west side of Main Street Hillsborough. Rectangular on plan facing east with integral carriage arch to the north bay, single-storey rear extension and converted former coach-house to rear site. Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and pair of rebuilt redbrick chimneystacks to either end with terracotta and octagonal clay pots. Further redbrick chimneystack rising from rear elevation. Replacement cast-iron guttering on iron brackets to rendered eaves course and cast-iron downpipe. Plastic rainwater goods on iron brackets to rear elevation. Random basalt walling with lime mortar and squared pink sandstone quoins. Square-headed window openings formed in redbrick with sandstone sills and replacement 6/6 timber sash windows with no horns. Front east elevation is four windows wide with three-centred arched door opening formed in redbrick with original timber door having four raised and fielded panels, spoked timber fanlight, opening onto concrete step to the street. To the northernmost bay is an elliptical-headed carriage arch with timber lintel and redbrick infill, pair of replacement vertically-sheeted doors and cast-iron conical wheel-guards. South side elevation abutted by adjoining building No.15 (HB19/05/021A). Rear west elevation is four windows wide, randomly placed and abutted by a modern single-storey extension to the south end. Adjacent to the carriage arch is a redbrick projecting chimneystack above ground floor level. Some original 6/6 timber sash windows to this elevation and a square-headed door opening with replacement glazed timber door. North side elevation abutted by No.11 (HB19/05/019) with redbrick walling within the carriage arch. Setting: Part of a terrace of houses of varying sizes but similar dates, lining the west side of Main Street. Detached three-bay two-storey reconstructed rubblestone former coach-house to rear. Roof Natural slate Walling Random basalt Windows Replacement timber sash RWG Plastic