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

One-and-a-half-storey two-bay Victorian red-brick modest terraced house with blue brick and red sandstone dressings, built circa 1872–74 likely to designs by architect William James Watson. The building has a rectangular plan form facing south-east and includes a full-width two-storey red brick rear extension, added circa 1994.

No. 1 Brick Row is one of six similar terrace houses located on the north-west side of Horner's Lane, off Bridge Street, Rostrevor. The terrace faces south-east and is fronted by a shared gravelled area bounded along Horner's Lane by a random-coursed rubble stone wall with rock-faced coping. The gravelled parking area has a vehicular entrance to the east. The dwellings are grouped into symmetrical pairs along the terrace, each pair having recessed semi-circular arched doors at the centre. Open porches formed by continuous over-sailing eaves are supported on decorative timber brackets. The porches are flanked by narrowly projecting gabled bay windows. Each pair of houses shares a dormer with its neighbour, with each dwelling having a single diminutive window to the shared dormer, and rectangular section red and blue brick chimneys at apex level. The gabled bay windows and dormers both feature decorative pierced painted timber bargeboards.

The walling is generally English Garden Bond red brick with a red brick plinth and single blue brick courses at window cill and impost levels. Stop-chamfered brick detail is present to the door and window jambs. The square-headed window openings on the front elevation have red sandstone heads and splayed red sandstone cills. Typical top-opening timber casement windows are fitted throughout. The pitched natural slate roof to the front block has angled terracotta clay ridge tiles; slates are graded in size with those at eaves level larger than those near the apex. The flat roof of the dormer extension to the rear extends north-west from the ridge for a short distance, with a pitched roof block attached to the west, connecting to a full-width rear extension to the north-west, and a second monopitched roof attached to the north, which has a skylight and forms a valley with the gable of the rear extension. A rectangular-section red brick chimney to the north-east gable has nine courses of blue brick to its top half and a single terracotta clay pot.

Narrowly projecting eaves feature exposed painted timber rafter ends. The building is generally fitted with uPVC rainwater goods with half-round guttering discharging to circular section downpipes. A cast iron downpipe to the front elevation is shared with No. 2 Brick Row.

The principal front elevation faces south-east and features a painted sheeted timber door with brass furniture, opening onto an open porch at the south-west formed by over-sailing eaves. Decorative painted timber posts frame the porch with decorative trefoil brackets. The door opens onto a concrete platform accessed via a granite step from the shared gravelled yard. A dormer window centred above the paired porches has a diminutive side-opening timber casement window with a horizontal glazing bar. A gabled narrowly projecting bay window to the north-east side of the porch features a paired top-opening timber casement window to ground floor level with a sandstone head; a semi-circular red sandstone arch sits over, with a flush herringbone pattern brick spandrel. Modern red brick walling abuts the north-east side of the elevation, which features similar detailing to the gable in buff brick, blue brick bands, and a semi-circular headed gateway leading to a private yard and the north-east gable end.

The building is attached on the south-west to No. 2 Brick Row. Limited access to the rear north-west-facing elevation is available, but where visible, it consists of a full-width red brick two-storey pitched-roof extension which extends north-west from the rear wall of the original dwelling to meet a shared access passage. The rear return has a natural slate roof, with its first floor extending further north-west than its ground floor level, supported by red brick walling to the north-east and a painted metal pillar to the south-west. A partially covered concrete yard below provides access via a painted metal pedestrian gate to the south-west, with modern block in-fill walling to the south-east of the gate. A top-hung timber casement window at ground floor level and a four-part timber casement window to the gable are present. A narrow corridor at the north-east leads south-east from the covered section of the yard to the back door. The south-west elevation of the rear return features a single top-opening casement window to first floor level above the covered rear yard. The rear return generally has Stretcher Bond red brick walling and timber casement windows with slim concrete cills.

Limited access to the north-east elevation is available, but where visible, it consists of a smooth cement-rendered gable with a chimney at the apex. The side wall of the rear return is attached to neighbouring buildings.

No. 1 Brick Row forms part of a terrace of six similar houses located on the north-west side of Horner's Lane, within the Rostrevor Conservation Area. 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 different shapes and sizes. A pair of two-and-a-half-storey red brick semi-detached dwellings are located on a raised site at the south-west end of Brick Row; these dwellings bear a similarity to Brick Row but are much larger and have some significant differences in detail.