9A Church Square, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 4AP

A three-storey four-bay town-house built circa 1840, now used as commercial premises. The building forms part of a historic terrace erected during the early development of Banbridge in the late Georgian and early Victorian period. It is located east of the junction between Castlewellan Road and Church Square, southeast of the Crozier Monument.

The building may represent a remodelling of an earlier Georgian structure, as suggested by the survival of significant historic detailing to the upper floors and the plan form, though the ground floor has been substantially altered with modifications to the plan and loss of historic fabric. It has a rectangular plan with a single-storey rear extension.

The principal elevation faces northeast and is asymmetrically arranged. The pitched natural slate roof features clay ridge tiles, and the chimney is smooth rendered without pots. The walling is ruled-and-lined render, with roughcast to the rear. The first-floor right bay contains a 6/6 sliding sash window with exposed boxes and a granite cill. The front entrance is positioned left of centre, comprising a four-panelled timber door with bolection mouldings, brass ironmongery, beaded muntin, rectangular overlight, and a panelled pilaster door case rising to cornice course. To the left is a replacement tri-partite timber sliding sash window with concrete cill. The right side features a shop front with a replica timber panelled door flanked by large glazed panels. The left gable abuts the adjoining building at 2A Castlewellan Road, whilst the right gable is abutted by the adjoining building HB17/07/013. The rear elevation is blank, with a modern brick chimney and a modern single-storey lean-to extension of no architectural interest. Rainwater goods are uPVC replacements.

The building forms part of a three-storey historic terrace with rear access via a coach entrance and yard associated with the adjoining property. Opposite stands a large modern brick wall enclosing the police station, with further historic structures to the northwest.

The building may have existed as early as 1833, though it is clearly depicted on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1860. By Griffith's Valuation of circa 1863, the property (then known as No. 1 Castlewellan Road) was let by William Waugh, a linen merchant and Justice of the Peace, and was valued at £30 as offices and yarn stores. By 1864, it had been converted to private dwelling use and was occupied by Martin Cowan, a grocer, who remained there until 1908. The property was purchased by Joseph Weir in 1882 and subsequently by James Crozier, a victualler, in 1908. In 1901 the Census recorded the property as a second-class shop with four rooms, a stable and store. By 1908, the building (which had previously incorporated the adjoining southern property) was divided into two separate properties. Thomas Sloan, a motor mechanic, occupied the larger house and shop from 1908, operating what the 1911 Census described as a second-class private dwelling with five rooms and five outoffices including a coach house, workshop, shed and store for his business. Sloan remained there until 1930. The smaller property was occupied first by Elizabeth Morrison from 1908 to 1911, then by John Bell from 1911, and subsequently by Margaret Forsythe, a confectioner, until 1930. The building was listed in 1977 and continues to be used as commercial premises.