35 Irish Street, Downpatrick, Co. Down, BT30 6BW

A terraced three-storey single-bay eighteenth-century house, now in commercial use, located on the south-west side of Irish Street, Downpatrick. Rectangular plan with substantial full-height rear return set on a slight skew. Pitched natural slate roof with raised cement verge and single rendered chimneystack to north-west gable. Half-round cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted smooth-rendered walling over a contrasting plinth to principal elevation. Windows are a variety of timber sashes with horns and painted masonry cills, except where otherwise stated. Principal elevation faces north-east and has two openings to each floor; upper floors have 1/1 timber sashes; ground floor has a modern glazed timber entrance door to left and an enlarged casement window to right. Left gable is abutted by a slightly taller building; right gable by a slightly lower building. The rear is extended by a full-width return which has a second formal entrance opening onto the yard of the adjoining building to S, which is accessed via an entry. It has two windows to upper floors; 6/6 to first floor, 2/2 to second floor, all with exposed boxes and horns. Ground floor has an elliptical-headed door opening to right, with replacement door and sidelights, but retaining pilastered surround and spoked fanlight with crown glazing, all over dressed granite steps. There is an infilled rectangular opening to its left and a uPVC casement to extreme left. The rear elevation of the return has a window to second floor; the north elevation could not be viewed but interior inspection shows 4/2 sashes set at an angle to upper floors. Setting: Set within a terrace of similar buildings on Irish Street; street fronted. To rear, the return is abutted by a substantial range of low two-storey terraced buildings, opening onto a narrow ‘street’ which is enclosed on the opposite side by the rear rubble stone walls of outbuildings on the neighbouring plot. The buildings are derelict and overgrown, but have the remains of slated roofs, limewashed lime-rendered walling, and timber-framed windows. Materials: Roof: Slate RWG: Cast iron Walling: Rendered, painted (E); unpainted (W) Windows: Timber, with one uPVC casement to GF return