12 Bridge Street, Dromore, Co Down, BT25 1AN

A two-bay three-storey end-terrace commercial premises, incorporating the upper floors of the neighbouring building (HB17/15/016A). Ppre-dating 1833 and located to the west side of Bridge Street north of the River Lagan in Dromore town centre. Rectangular plan with shop-front to ground floor recessed beneath jettied upper floors and two-storey return (later) to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks to gables. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods on red-brick eaves course. Walling is painted ruled-and-lined render with straight quoins to upper floors. Windows are 1/1 timber-framed sash with horns and painted projecting sills; 2/2 to second floor and 3/3 with margin panes to south elevation of return. The principal elevation faces east with entrance at first floor street-level; ground floor shop-front is recessed and beneath jettied upper storeys, each two windows wide, are supported on three cast-iron columns. Shop-front to ground-floor left with plate glass windows on a chamfered stall riser divided by timber partitions with trefoil detail to squinches and timber-sheeted soffits. Replacement half-panelled timber entrance door to right of shop-front. The south elevation is three-storey with ground floor at river level; two windows to second floor; window to first and ground floor left. The west (rear) elevation has a 1/1 window to second floor left; abutted at ground-floor by the two-storey return (at an angle) with 1/1 window to ground floor left and two multi-paned windows to south elevation. The north gable is abutted by adjoining building (HB17/15/016A). Setting Set directly north of bridge over the River Lagan and forming the end of an early nineteenth-century terrace in the centre of Dromore. Street-facing to east with shop-front recessed beneath jettied upper floors and pavement. To north is a timber-sheeted latch-gate to side-alley leading to a rear yard, partially lawned, and enclosed by mature hedgerow. Roof: Natural slate Walling: render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron