30-32 Downpatrick Street, Crossgar, Downpatrick, Co Down, BT30 9EA

A plain two storey terrace house in the centre of Crossgar, originally comprising two separate dwellings dating to around 1830, which were amalgamated in 1986-87. The property occupies the northeast side of Downpatrick Street, with its front façade facing roughly southwest.

The front elevation is finished in rough cast with smooth render surrounds to the openings. The ground floor contains a partly glazed house door slightly right of centre, flanked to its left by two sash windows (the rightmost of these formerly being a doorway). To the right of the house door is a timber panelled door providing passage access to the rear. The first floor has four windows arranged roughly symmetrically. Rainwater goods to the front are cast iron; the rear has PVC goods. The roof is covered in natural slate, with a rendered chimney stack to the southeast; a second stack formerly existed to the northwest.

The rear façade shows the effects of the 1986-87 amalgamation more clearly. A passage opening occupies the ground floor left, with a small plain sash window immediately to its right. The first floor has two windows of varying size to the centre-left: a sash window to the left and a squat top-hung window (probably inserted during the 1986-87 works) to its right. A large single storey gabled extension was added to the rear in 1986-87, with artificial slate roof covering and plain cement render exterior, painted.

Both houses appear in the first valuation plan of Crossgar from around 1835-38, though without recorded details. Both were recorded as relatively old in the second valuation of 1859, suggesting construction sometime prior to around 1839, probably not before around 1810 when Crossgar village began serious development. The historical record shows No. 30 occupied by Elizabeth Cleland in 1859, followed by James Stewart (1881), John Duignan (1893), Rose Jennings (1896) and Mick Morrison (1898), whose relatives remained until the 1980s, succeeded by Ann Bell as the final occupant. No. 32 was occupied by David Casement in 1859, subsequently by James Mulholland (1871), Neill Campbell (1881), Thomas McLaughlin (1884), J. Shannon (1901), Henry Bassett (1927) and James Ferris (1929).