Queen’s Hall, West Street, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT23 4EN

The Queen’s Hall is a large, modern-style hall with an attached library, constructed between 1940 and 1959 to designs by Henry Lynn. It is situated between West Street and Regent Street, with the hall's entrance on West Street and the library's on Regent Street.

The northern facade, facing West Street, features a projecting single-story section with a flat roof that extends around the sides of the main hall in a U-shaped fashion. This section is faced with sandstone and has a large recessed entrance with three sets of glazed double doors, sheltered by a flat-roofed port-cochere supported by metal columns. Small slit windows are located on either side of the recessed entrance. The sides of this section are faced with grey-brown concrete brick. Originally, access may have existed through to Regent Street, but extensions built in 1961 blocked off this direct access. Above the single-story section rises the gabled upper section of the main hall, also constructed of concrete brick. A narrow gabled projection on the north gable served as a projection room. The main gable is finished in painted render with narrow slit windows centrally located. Single-pane square windows are positioned on the east and west sides of the upper hall section.

The southern facade, facing Regent Street, is two stories high with a flat roof. The ground floor is largely glazed with a flat-roofed portico and a central porch featuring glazed doors to the east and west. This ground floor section appears to have been renovated recently and has a distinctly 1990s aesthetic including brightly colored metal frames and extensive glazing. Above, the facade is a combination of brown-red brick and sandstone arranged in panels separated by concrete pilasters, with the outer and central panels faced in sandstone and the remainder in brick. A crest and two angled flagpoles are displayed within the central panel. A concrete parapet runs along the front. Copper sheeting covers both the pitched roof and the flat roofs.

The sides of the hall were extended in 1961. The glazed panels and porch on the library facade appear to be replacements from the 1990s.