Riverside Inn, 21 Church Square, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 4AP

A three-storey four-bay end-of-terrace Victorian commercial premises built c.1880; rectangular plan form with rear abutments. Located on Church Square, north of Banbridge town centre. Pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles; smooth rendered chimneystacks with moulded cornicing; projected eaves course and ogee moulded cast-iron rainwater goods. Stucco rendered with long-and-short raised quoins; projected plinth. 1/1 timber sliding sash segmental-arched windows with horns; moulded surrounds with raised key block; painted masonry cill. Replacement front entrance part of modern pub front. The principal elevation faces northwest and is asymmetrically arranged. The ground floor right comprises a modern pub front comprising four segmental-arched arcade, polished stone pilasters with signage over. Left ground floor are segmental-arched timber sheeted double-leaf doors to coach entrance; moulded archivolt and surrounds with chamfer stops. Over the coach entrance is an oriel with hipped roof and leaded hips; window to the front with slightly narrower windows to the left and right cheeks; continuous plain cill course. Three windows uniformly arranged to the first and second floor left. The left gable is blank. The rear elevation is asymmetrically arranged; single first floor window to the right. The left portion is abutted by a linear two-storey pitched roof return (part of adjoining nightclub HB17/07/008). The right is abutted by a large hipped roof block with secondary entrance door to the north east elevation; the south east elevation faces into the yard associated with the adjoining building. Setting The former building forms part of a terrace to the north part of the town, looking on to Church Square. Linear range of outbuildings abutting the rear terminated by a two-storey hipped roof block; pitched roof and painted smooth render and brick walls; all largely altered with replacement fabric; variety of uses, some of which is incorporated and modernized into the adjacent nightclub (HB17/07/008). Large public carpark to the north. Roofing: Natural slate Walling: Stucco Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron