1-3 West Street & 2 Mary Street, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT23 4EN 4DQ

This large two-storey gabled corner block, dating from 1861, stands slightly northwest of Newtownards town centre at the junction of West Street and Mary Street. The building has a basalt rubble façade with brick dressings. The block comprised a pub (Nos. 1-2 Mary Street) with a long return into Mary Street, and a house (No. 3 West Street).

The Pub (No. 1 West Street - 2 Mary Street)

The south-facing front elevation onto West Street features an 'Ards' doorway positioned left of centre, with chamfered pilasters embellished with hound's tooth decoration to the underside of the semicircular archivolt. The original fanlight is blocked, now bearing a modern circular sign. To the left is a small modern multi-pane window with opaque glass and louvered section, set within a large smooth rendered and painted surround with splayed cill that covers much of the original brick dressings. A laminated signboard sits above. To the right of the doorway are two similar windows. The first floor has four evenly spaced windows with brick dressings and modern frames with frosted patterning to the lower panes; three have thin modern lintels inserted below the brick dressings. Two internally illuminated projecting PVC signs and a satellite dish occupy the first floor. Painted quoins mark the southeast corner, and a bracketed eaves course runs across the façade.

The east gable displays a very large ground floor window in the same style as the front, with the outline of a segmental arch above. At intermediate level to the left is a laminated signboard. Two first floor windows and two small semicircular-headed windows at attic level, all with brick dressings and modern frames, rise above.

The east façade of the long return has two ground floor windows on the left (the furthest originally a door) in the same style as the front, followed by three window-like recesses with brick dressings. To the far right stands a large flat-arched carriage entrance with sandstone dressings to the sides and an internally illuminated projecting PVC sign above. The first floor has two windows at the far left, two window-like recesses, a window with horizontal glazing bars remaining in its frame, and another window recess.

The pub's roof is covered in asbestos-free slates, with bangor blues covering the east side of the return roof. Two matching basalt chimney stacks serve the main pub building, and two further stacks stand at the north end of the return. Rw goods are a mixture of cast iron and PVC. The rear of the pub and west façade of the return are entirely obscured by a modern extension.

The House (No. 3 West Street)

This property has been completely gutted and refurbished but remains largely an unfinished shell. The south-facing front features a right of-centre doorway with a panelled PVC door and plain semicircular fanlight. To the left are two windows with brick dressings and PVC frames; to the right is a similar window, with four more windows rising to the first floor. Brick quoins mark the left side.

The rear façade is dominated by a large two-storey flat-roofed extension at its centre. The extension's north façade has a modern glazed door to the ground floor and a PVC window to the first floor. To the left of the extension (on the main rear façade) are windows to both ground and first floors with PVC frames. To the right is a first floor window and a large door-like opening without a door at ground level. The rear façade is rendered and painted.

The roof is covered in artificial slates. Two basalt chimney stacks serve the house, one shared with the pub. Sections of cast iron rw goods remain.

Note

This building was demolished in 2018 and a new building constructed on the site. This description records its appearance at the time of survey in 1998.