16 Stream Street, Downpatrick, Co Down, BT30 6DD

A small, two-storey rubble-fronted terrace house on the east side of Stream Street in Downpatrick, possibly dating from before 1834. The building is situated on a slope, with the ground floor set at a high level due to the southward descent of the street.

The asymmetrical west-facing front façade features a timber-sheeted entrance door to the left of centre, reached by a relatively long flight of granite steps with wrought iron railings. The doorway has a plain narrow fanlight. To the right of the entrance is a sash window with horizontal glazing bars in a 2/2 pattern and brick dressings. Three much smaller plain sash windows occupy the first floor, also with brick dressings. The front façade is constructed largely from plain unrendered rubble, with the face of the flight of steps rendered.

To the rear, a large single-storey lean-to extension has a plain double sash window to the east face and a timber-sheeted door to the north face. The first-floor rear façade contains a small sash window. A window at ground floor level has been blocked in rubble. The lean-to is finished in roughcast with raised brick dressings and quoins. The main building's rear façade is rubble. Both the main gabled roof and the lean-to roof are slated. Two small Velux windows are set into the rear of the main roof. Rainwater goods appear to be mainly PVC.

The east side of Stream Street is shown largely developed on a 1729 town plan of Downpatrick. Given the apparent lack of source material, the precise age of this house is difficult to estimate. Its appearance alone could place it anywhere between the mid-18th century and the mid-19th century. It may well be one of the six houses exempt recorded on this site in the 1838 valuation, though this cannot be stated with certainty. The rear lean-to was added around the 1990s.

The building is situated within a conservation area and holds group value with its neighbouring properties.