80 Church Street, Dromore, Banbridge, Co Down, BT25 1AA

A three-bay two-storey attached house built c.1860 and located to the north side of Church Street west of Dromore town centre. The house has been subdivided and presents a symmetrical facade with number 82 (HB17/15/031B); number 80 is to right and is four openings wide; number 82 is three openings wide. Rectangular plan with two-storey canted bay to south; two-storey return and gabled stair-bay to rear connected by a single-storey lean-to extension. Hipped natural slate roof with leaded ridges and red-brick chimneystacks having clay pots; decorative bargeboards to gable of stair-bay. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on bracketed timber eaves and sheeted soffits. Walling is painted smooth render on a contrasting plinth with raised quoins. Windows are 2/2 timber-framed sash with projecting painted sills; first floor windows have chamfered edges and keyblock; ground floor to canted bay with decorative pilaster jambs and moulded surrounds. The principal elevation faces south. The original entrance has been incorporated into number 80. Two-storey canted bays flank a central entrance bay. Entrance bay has timber verandah on slender cast-iron columns with ornate spandrel brackets and balustrade. Raised-and-pointed four-panelled timber door with brass door furniture flanked by half-panelled sidelights and transom, each with etched and painted glass panels in decorative dog-tooth door frame. Far left and right bays each have two windows at each floor. West elevation is abutted by adjoining building (HB17/15/031B). The north (rear) elevation has two-storey gabled extension to left with multi-paned window to ground and first floor; abutted at re-entrant angle by a small entrance porch containing a panelled-and-glazed timber door accessed by a set of timber steps. To right (centre of the elevation) is the projecting gabled stair-bay having segmental-headed stairwell opening with keyblock inset with a Venetian etched and painted glass window with margin panes. Connecting the two bays is a lean-to single-storey extension with half-panelled timber door to right and two windows at left. The east gable is abutted by a modern two-storey dwelling (of no interest). Setting: Situated in a suburban setting on the outskirts of the town, set back from the road with lawned garden to front and mature trees to entrance. Bounded to road by rendered plinth wall with hedgerow and square gate piers having pointed caps and supporting metal gates. Garden to rear is raised and set on a slope. Modern two-storey house attached to east gable. Roof: Natural slate Walling: render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron