Former Town Hall 24 High Street Donaghadee Co Down

The building was commissioned as a private house: it was designed in the Georgian style, built in greywacke stone and was completed in around 1770. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto the High Street; the central bay featured a doorway flanked by pedestals with Ionic order columns supporting an entablature and a pediment. The other bays on the ground floor and all the bays on the first floor were fenestrated by twelve-pane sash windows whilst the windows on the second floor were fenestrated by six-pane sash windows. At roof level, there was a cornice and a hip roof. After a local resident, Mrs McCready, was murdered by her husband in 1852, the lane…