2 Brick Row, Horner'S Lane, Rostrevor, Co.Down

No. 2 Brick Row is a one-and-a-half-storey Victorian terraced house built around 1872–74, likely designed by architect William James Watson. It is constructed of red brick with blue brick and red sandstone dressings, and forms part of a terrace of six similar houses on the north-west side of Horner's Lane in Rostrevor, within the Rostrevor Conservation Area.

The building has an L-shaped plan facing south-east, with a full-width flat-roofed dormer extension to the rear and a single-storey pitched-roof rear return. It occupies a two-bay position within the terraced grouping. The terrace is fronted by a shared gravelled area bounded by a random-coursed rubble stone wall with rock-faced coping, with vehicular access to the east. The dwellings are grouped into symmetrical pairs; No. 2 forms a pair with its neighbour.

The principal front elevation faces south-east and features a recessed semi-circular arched door set to the centre of the paired houses. An open porch is formed by continuous over-sailing eaves supported on decorative timber brackets. Painted timber posts frame the porch opening with decorative trefoil brackets. The door opens onto a concrete platform accessed via a granite step from the shared yard. A narrowly projecting gabled bay window flanks the porch to the south-west, with paired top-opening timber casement windows at ground-floor level under a semi-circular red sandstone arch with a flush herringbone-pattern brick spandrel. The bay window has a red sandstone head to the window opening.

Above the paired porches sits a shared dormer window with a single diminutive side-opening timber casement window. The dormer has decorative pierced painted timber bargeboards and is topped with a rectangular-section red and blue brick chimney at apex level, finished with two terracotta clay pots.

The walling is laid in English Garden Bond red brick with a red brick plinth. Single blue brick courses run at window cill and impost levels. Stop-chamfered brick detail appears to door and window jambs. Square-headed window openings have red sandstone heads and splayed red sandstone cills. Windows throughout are timber casement with top-hung night vents.

The pitched natural slate roof to the front block is fitted with angled black clay ridge tiles; slates are graded in size with larger slates at eaves level diminishing towards the apex. The roof is supported by narrowly projecting eaves with exposed painted timber rafter ends. The building retains cast iron rainwater goods with half-round guttering discharging to circular section downpipes on the front elevation, though the rear elevation and rear return have been fitted with uPVC rainwater goods.

A rectangular-section red brick chimney to the south-west of the front elevation has nine courses of blue brick to its upper half.

The flat-roofed dormer extension extends north-west along the full width of the original dwelling from ridge to rear wall, with a felt-covered finish. The north-west-facing elevation has a top-opening timber casement window with a slim concrete cill, and smooth cement-rendered walling. The single-storey pitched-roof rear return to the right (south-west) extends north-west to meet the boundary with a shared rear access passage. It has a single top-opening timber casement window to its north-west end and a six-panelled painted timber door on the north-east elevation, with a single timber casement window to the south-east side of the door. The rear return is partially covered with a monopitched clear corrugated Perspex structure. A narrow concrete yard to the north-east side of the rear return leads to the rear access passage.

The ground-floor level and rear return have smooth cement-rendered walling. The south-west elevation is attached to No. 3 Brick Row, and the north-east elevation is attached to No. 1 Brick Row.

The site is bounded to the front by rubble stone walling and to the rear by a high stone retaining wall. Rear facades along Brick Row are generally much altered with various extensions of differing shapes and sizes. A pair of two-and-a-half-storey red brick semi-detached dwellings is located on a raised site to the south-west end of the terrace; these dwellings bear similarity to Brick Row but are considerably larger with significant differences in detail.