45-47 High Street, Ballynahinch, Co Down, BT24 8AB

Large two storey terrace house of perhaps c.1820s, with Doric entrance surround and modern shop front. The building is set on the W side of High Street, in the centre of Ballynahinch. The asymmetrical front façade faces E. To the left of centre is a sturdy looking timber door, (which may be original), with shallow panels. The doorway has a semicircular fanlight with ‘petal’ tracery and is encased with Doric ¾ columns with entablature, cornice and blocking course. To the left of the doorway is a house window with simple moulded surround and modern frame. To the right of the house door is a large modern shop front. To the first floor are four evenly spaced windows, as ground floor left but smaller and with segmental heads. The S gable is blank. To the rear there is a large ground floor return which has been extended at some point. The return has various modern windows and a modern door. To the right of the return (on ground floor of façade of main house) there is a window with modern frame. There are three similar windows to the first floor with two stairwell windows, (set at intermediate levels), with similar frames. The front façade is finished in painted lined render to front and unpainted cement rough cast to the rear and gable. The gabled roof is covered in artificial ‘slate’ (asbestos and asbestos free), with three Velux windows to front and three to the rear. Single rendered chimney stack to S.