7 The Square (Orchard Grove Residential home), Clough, Downpatrick, Co Down, BT30 8RB

7 The Square is a long terrace block of mixed dates, situated on the sloping north side of The Square in the village of Clough. It is now used as a residential home.

The building is largely of pre-1834 construction with a generally Georgian appearance, but incorporates full-height rounded end bays dating to around 1900. It originally comprised two to three separate properties: the larger western portion contained a house and store, while a shorter eastern section was added after around 1860 as a separate dwelling. A small single-storey section at the west end appears to have been rebuilt in relatively recent times. The building is now consolidated as a single property.

The long south-facing front façade is asymmetrical and largely two storeys. To the left of centre is the main entrance, comprising a panelled timber door and fanlight with margin panes, flanked by fluted Doric three-quarter columns supporting a panelled entablature. To the left of the doorway is a sash window with Georgian panes in a 6/6 pattern. Beyond this is a shallow rounded full-height bay with a hipped four-sided slated roof, containing three plain sash windows to each floor, with an upper sill course spanning the bay only. To the right of the main doorway are two further sash windows as those to the left, followed by a second doorway with a modern panelled and glazed door, then another similar window. At the far right, beyond a line of in-and-out quoins marking the original extent of the larger building section, is another bay matching that at the far left. The first floor of the large area between the bays contains six unevenly spaced sash windows. To the west gable is a small single-storey gabled section with two plain sash windows and a further sash window to its gable. The east gable of the main building is blank.

The front façade is finished in painted lined render with in-and-out quoins.

The rear elevation is more complex. At its centre is a large full-height gabled return. To the left of this return on the rear façade of the main building, at ground floor, is a large modern window at far left, a modern door, and a small sash window with 4/4 panes. The first floor has two windows with modern frames and a doorway with modern door between them, reached via a modern metal staircase that cuts through the eaves line. The east face of the return has a large modern window to ground floor, with a blank gable above. The west face has a small single-storey lean-to with a modern glazed door and small window with modern frame, both on the west face. The first floor of the return proper has three windows of varying sizes, one with a plain sash frame and the others with modern frames. To the right of the return on the rear façade of the main building, the ground floor has a modern glazed door, a pair of small windows with modern frames, and a Georgian-paned sash window as those on the front. The first floor has four small sash windows, three of them 4/2 and one plain. The rear façade of the single-storey section to the far right has two large modern picture windows with adjacent flat panel doors. The rear is largely finished in roughcast.

The gabled roof is largely slated, though a small section to the rear may be asbestos. There are four rendered chimney stacks to the main roof and a taller, recent-looking stack to the return. Rainwater goods are mainly cast iron, though some sections to the rear are PVC.