Tonaghmore Primary School, 4 Drumnavaddy Road, Banbridge, Co Down, BT25 1JT

A symmetrical red-brick double-height gabled former school; dated 1862 and located to the west side of Drumnavaddy Road northeast of Banbridge. Rectangular plan with single-storey gabled entrance porches (later) to north and south gables. Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles, plain bargeboards and red-brick chimneystacks to gables. Plastic rainwater goods on over-hanging timber eaves having cast-iron down-pipes. Walling is English garden wall-bonded red-brick with yellow-brick quoins and dressings on a cement rendered plinth. Windows are round-headed 2/2 margin-paned timber-framed sash with exposed boxes in alternate yellow-brick surrounds with projecting granite sills; large timber casement windows to rear. The principal elevation faces east and is three evenly-spaced windows wide. To centre under eaves is a modern plastic plaque reading “TONAGHMORE PRIMARY SCHOOL”. The south gable has yellow brick diamond motif at gable; at right is a slate plaque with inscription reading TONAGHMORE NATIONAL SCHOOL A.D. 1862. Abutted at left by the gabled red-brick entrance porch with modern six-panelled timber door at left and casement timber window to right cheek. The west (rear) elevation has two large casement windows to left and right. The north gable is abutted at right by the gabled red-brick entrance porch with modern metal-sheeted door with ramped access; timber casement window to right cheek. Setting Situated in an unspoiled rural location fronting a country road on the outskirts of Banbridge. Gravel yard to rear accessed to north via a set of modern timber gates. Bounded to road at north by modern timber fencing over slender round-headed masonry piers. Roof: Natural slate Walling: brick Windows: timber RWG: uPVC/cast-iron