47-53 Killyleagh Street, Crossgar, Co Down, BT30 9QD

47-53 Killyleagh Street, Crossgar, is a long two-storey terrace block built in 1865 by John Dunwoody, as recorded on an inscribed panel above the central carriage arch. The building stands on the south side of Killyleagh Street near the centre of the small town and now houses a single large furniture shop, though it was originally designed as four separate shop units with a first-floor apartment.

The front façade is finished in painted render with in-and-out quoins and presents an asymmetrical composition. Four original-looking Victorian shop fronts frame a slightly off-centre carriage arch. The two shop fronts to the left of the arch are identical to those on the right, each featuring a central panelled timber double door with fanlight containing vertical margin panes, flanked by large six-light shop windows with segmental arch heads to the upper lights. The door and window frames have panelled pilaster jambs and slim panelled signboards above. The windows rest on rendered aprons. Above three of the original signboards are smaller timber signboards, which appear to be fairly recent additions. The shop front immediately to the right of the carriage arch displays a traditional projecting sign above its original signboard.

Between the right pair of shop fronts is a timber-panelled house door with an almost semicircular arched fanlight containing radial tracery, serving access to the first-floor accommodation. The carriage arch itself has timber-sheeted doors and is topped by the inscribed panel reading "Built by John Dunwoody 1865".

The first floor contains ten largely evenly spaced sash windows with Georgian panes, arranged across the façade.

The rear façade has undergone considerable alteration. To the left of the archway is a large two-storey flat-roofed extension, the upper level of which is entirely clad in corrugated iron. To the right is a larger extension, partly single-storey and partly two-storey, with what appears to have been an original two-storey gabled return to the far right, now largely obscured but distinguished by its slated gabled roof. The only opening to the rear façade of the main building is a now boarded-over first-floor window to the right of the archway. The rear is finished in rough-cast rendered and painted surfaces, as are much of the extensions.

The main roof is covered in natural slate with six rendered chimney stacks. Rainwater goods appear to be predominantly metal. Two squat granite piers at the drive entrance to the carriage arch were positioned to prevent vehicles from mounting the pavement.

Historic records indicate the block was built as a unified development to replace earlier small houses that had occupied the site. The uniformity of the shop windows, all appearing original, supports this. Valuation records from 1863 show that the previous properties on this site belonged to William Dunwodie, undoubtedly a relative of John Dunwoody. Street numbering suggests the original block contained five properties: the four shops and a first-floor apartment, now internally amalgamated into single commercial use.