Percy Lodge, 55 Church Street, Dromore, Co Down, BT25 1AA

A detached two-storey-over-basement three-bay red-brick gabled house; built c.1860 to designs by Thomas Turner and located on a mature site to the south side of Church Street west of Dromore town centre. T-shaped on plan. Pitched natural slate roof with angled ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks having four tall clay pots; decorative bargeboards and fascia with drop finials to gables. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on decorated projecting timber eaves; cast-iron downpipes and hoppers. Walling is Flemish-bonded red-brick with lime and aggregate pointing on a sandstone plinth. Windows are 1/1 timber-framed sash with projecting granite sills, square-headed to ground floor and round-headed to first floor. The principal elevation faces north; all ground floor openings have slated label over. Projecting entrance bay to centre is symmetrically arranged with dual entrance at ground floor and two windows at first floor (that to right with leaded stained glass); left cheek has a margin paned sash; right cheek has two round-headed openings, one blind, one with margin paned stained glass and rectangular blind opening over. Left and right bays have a blind opening and window to basement. Dual entrance comprises two raised-and-fielded six-panel timber doors, that to left is the main entrance and has brass door furniture; modern leaded-and-stained glass window to first floor right. Exposed basement is enclosed to either side of the entrance bay by a brick walled enclosure with stone coping and corner pier. Left side has a 1/1 window with margin panes to ground floor and a half-panelled timber door. Right side has blind opening to centre at first floor and left at ground floor; round-headed leaded-and-stained glass window to ground floor right. The east elevation has window to first floor and canted bay with fish-scale slates to ground floor. The south elevation has gabled bay to centre; window to first floor and half-panelled timber door and window to ground floor. Left and right bay have a window with slated canopy to ground floor. The west gable has a window to first floor and canted bay window with fish-scale slates to ground floor. Setting Set on a large mature site opposite the old Station Master’s house, to the south of Church Street. Bounded to road to north by random coursed rock-faced stone wall and screened by mature trees with entrance to northwest; square ashlar gate piers having chamfered shafts and Gothic pointed caps supporting cast-iron gates; cattle grid to entrance and tarmacadamed driveway to front of house. To east is modern L-shaped building housing garage and granny-flat. To north is a timber-sheeted gate to Church Street in round-headed granite reveal accessed by a path cut into steep earthen bank. Sandstone steps to garden at North. Roof: Natural slate Walling: brick Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron