Dunbar Memorial Hall, Downshire Road, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 3JY

A double-height gabled rock-faced stone hall in Gothic-Revival style; built c.1880 and located to the south side of Downshire Road in Banbridge town centre. Rectangular plan with breakfront gabled bay to front and flanking gabled porches; side wing set perpendicular to main hall; single-storey return and flat-roof modern extensions to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with decorative terracotta ridge tiles and raised stone verges with kneeler stones and ball finials; decorative filigree finials to ridgeline and gable. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods on moulded stone eaves. Walling is regularly coursed rock-faced stone with ashlar sandstone dressings. Windows are Gothic timber casements in ashlar surrounds with projecting stone sills; ocular window to projecting gable at northeast. The principal elevation faces northeast and has projecting gabled bay to centre with ocular window having eight cusped panes and leaded lights over two tall tripartite mullioned windows with trefoil heads. Stone plaque to gable has description (illegible). Left and right bays each have paired timber casement window. The southeast elevation is abutted by the side wing to left and to re-entrant angle by a gabled porch. Porch has window to left cheek and opens to northeast with timber-sheeted door in shouldered ashlar recess, accessed via three stone steps enclosed by parapet walls. Stone shield to gable is blank. The southwest elevation is abutted to left by the single-storey return having window at northwest; abutted at right by the flat-roof modern extensions (of no interest). The northwest elevation has a tripartite mullioned window with trefoil to centre and slender loop opening to gable; abutted at left by the gabled porch, detailed as previous. The side wing to southeast has two tripartite windows and projecting chimneybreast (chimneystack removed) to centre at southeast elevation. Southeast corner is chamfered to lower level. Southwest elevation has a tall tripartite mullioned window with trefoil to centre. Setting Situated directly opposite the Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church (HB17/06/003) and southwest of the Methodist Church (HB17/06/002) and the Old Technical School (HB17/06/020). To southwest are the modern District Council Offices. Set back from the road with tarmac car-parking area to front. Bounded to road by modern stone-faced wall. To entrance are two square piers with pointed caps supporting replacement metal gates. Small yard to rear. To west is a lawned garden with mature trees enclosed by the stone boundary wall. Roof: Natural slate Walling: stone Windows: Timber RWG: cast-iron