18 Main Street, Seaforde, Naghan, Downpatrick, Co Down, BT30 8PA

Tudoresque, double-fronted two storey house with large gabled half dormers and tall prominent chimney stacks, one of a broken terrace of former estate workers’ cottages of c.1840, originally containing eight small dwellings, a smithy and a store. The whole grouping was acquired by Hearth and renovated in 1983-84, when each pair of houses were amalgamated to form four larger properties (of which this is one), with the smithy and the store converted into two further dwellings. In the process the redundant doorways to the front were made into small windows and another large gable was added to the rear of all houses. The buildings are set on the S side of Main Street, near the centre of the small village of Seaforde. There is an open lawn to front and enclosed gardens to the rear. This particular house is to the W end of the shorter western terrace. To the W it abuts a larger two storey public house. The front façade faces N and is asymmetrical. Slightly to the left of centre is a timber sheeted door. To the left and to the right of this is a relatively large three light casement window with four (vertically arranged) panes to each light. To the far right, (where there used to be a doorway), is a smaller window in similar style. To the first floor (within the large gabled half-dormers) are two further casement windows, similar to previous. To the rear there is a timber sheeted door with a small casement window to either side. To the first floor left there is a half-dormer with window, all as front. The façade is rendered and painted. The gabled roof is covered in natural slate with two Velux windows to the rear. Large central chimney stack with three tall pots positioned in ‘diamond’ formation. Metal rw goods.