Former RUC Barracks, Church Square, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 4AT

A two-storey-over-basement stone former police barracks built c.1860 and located to the north of Church Square in Banbridge town centre. Rectangular plan with red-brick projecting porches to southwest and northwest; full-height return to rear and two-storey extension to northeast. Hipped natural slate roof with central red-brick chimneystack. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on projecting corbelled red and yellow brick eaves over paired moulded yellow brick brackets. Walling is rock-faced black stone built to courses with yellow brick plat-band between floors, yellow brick quoins and dressings. Windows are mainly 6/6 timber sliding sash (where remaining) (diminished in height to first floor) with yellow-brick surrounds and projecting granite sills. The principal elevation faces southeast and is four windows wide to each floor (slightly grouped to either side). The southwest elevation has a window to centre at first floor and is abutted at ground floor and basement by the projecting red-brick porch having window to southwest elevation and bricked-up doorway to southwest; accessed by a set of five steps. The northwest elevation is abutted by the full-height return, having windows to first and ground floor; window to right at basement and partially abutted at right by a Portacabin. The northeast elevation has three windows to first floor; to centre at ground floor is projecting porch flanked by two windows; to centre at basement is a timber-sheeted door, window at left and single-storey projection at right. Abutted at right by the lower two-storey extension; northwest elevation having two windows to ground floor and a doorway to right at basement. Setting Prominently set at the centre of Church Square, directly south of the Masonic Hall (HB17/01/002) and facing the Crozier Monument (HB17/07/011). Set at a lower level to the road with modern metal security fencing and metal gates to southeast elevation; to front is also a modern metal security hut on a stone plinth. Sergeant’s house (HB17/04/003B) to north accessed via entrance to north of Masonic Hall. Bridge to southwest over River Bann flowing on west side of site. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Stone Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron