The Manse, 84 Church Street, Dromore, Banbridge, Co Down, BT25 1AA

A symmetrical red-brick mid-Victorian former Manse; built 1876 and located to the north side of Church Street west of Dromore town centre. L-shaped plan with single-storey canted bays to front, single-storey entrance porch and modern extension to rear. Hipped natural slate roof with leaded hips and ridges; two tall red-brick chimneystacks with fluted shafts; A-frame bargeboards with finials to gables. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on overhanging eaves. Walling is Flemish-bonded red-brick on a chamfered plinth. Windows are generally segmental-headed to ground floor and square-headed to first floor, all 1/1 timber-framed sliding sash with projecting granite sills. Feature round-headed window to first floor centre with gablet over. The principal elevation faces south and is three openings wide to first floor. Single-storey canted bays with traditional three flank a double-leaf six flat-panelled timber door. Door is surmounted by segmental-headed transom light with carved trefoil detailing and slated canopy on brick piers with stone caps and base. The west elevation has two evenly spaced windows to ground and first floor. The north (rear) elevation has return to left; right bay has two windows to first floor and is abutted at ground floor by the modern extension. Left gable is abutted by the single-storey gabled rear entrance extension with a modern timber door; segmental-headed window to north and west elevations. The east elevation has four windows to first floor. Ground floor has a group of three diminutive windows to centre; window to left and two windows to right. Setting Set back from the road with lawned and shrubbed garden to front with mature trees. Tarmac driveway leads to front of house, accessed from Church Street to south via a set of sandstone gate piers supporting original cast-iron gates. Bounded to south by mature hedgerow and to east by a rubble stone wall. To east is a two-storey red-brick coach house in similar style as the house with bargeboards and finial to gables; fully refurbished as a modern office. Corner chamfered to ground floor, corbelled out to first floor. Roof: Natural slate Walling: brick Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron