Public House (‘Burgundy Ben’s’), 15-17 Belfast Road, Ballygowan, Co. Down, BT23 6HX

Large, two storey public house set within a terrace on the E side of the Belfast Road in the centre of Ballygowan. The front (W) facade has a slightly right of centre main entrance doorway with panelled door and plain fanlight encased with fluted and panelled pilasters set on a tall base. To the immediate right and immediate left of the doorway is a large three light timber (Victorian looking) window with a semicircular arched head to each light. Low wrought iron ‘cheval-de-fris’ in front of windows (and all windows). These large windows have outer pilasters (as before) and the whole windows and door ensemble is topped with a lintel frieze/signboard with decorative outer brackets with dentilled cornice above frieze. To the far left on the front facade is a broad doorway with panelled double doors encased with pilasters much as before and a panelled lintel frieze above itself topped with a plain tympanum. This doorway was been greatly widened recently. To the immediate right of this doorway is a window with PVC frame, moulded surround, lintel frieze, cornice and blocking course. The window rests on a cill course. To the right of this window is another door with surround, as previous window, stretching to the cill course. The doorway was a window until fairly recently. To the immediate right of the main entrance doorway/window ensemble is another doorway (leading to an off licence) with panelled door and pilasters as entrance but with decorative capitals. This doorway is topped with a lintel frieze, cornice and tympanum. To the right of this doorway are two windows as that to the far left, both resting on a cill course. To the first floor are eight windows with moulded surrounds and PVC frames as ground floor far left and far right. All first floor windows rest on a cill course. The front facade is finished in lined render with a dentilled eaves course with end brackets. The exposed sections of both gables are blank and rendered. The ground floor at the rear is completely covered by a large modern flat roofed extension. To the first floor are two plain sheeted doorways which allow access to a walkway (on the roof of the extension). Eaves course. The roof is gabled and covered in Bangor blue slates. Rendered parapets. Two tall rendered chimney stacks with corbelling. Another chimney stack (originally sited to the N of centre), has been removed.