Town Hall, Market Square, Dromore, Banbridge, Co Down, BT25 1AW

A free-standing two-storey gabled red-brick former market house, now Town Hall, built 1886 and located at the centre of Market Square in Dromore town centre. L-shaped plan. Pitched natural slate roof with plain bargeboards to gables; red-brick chimneystack to north gable; south gable has square timber clock tower with pedimented roof surmounted by weathervane. Rainwater goods are concealed behind scaffolding. Walling is Flemish-bonded red-brick on a chamfered plinth with brick string-courses between floors. Windows are generally timber-boarded but are mainly round-headed with brick label moulds and projecting stone sills; south elevation has variety of round-headed timber-framed sliding sash. The principal elevation faces south; gabled front is three windows wide with glazed oculus and round-headed multi-paned mid-level window to centre flanked by a window to first floor left and right. Ground floor has a set of double-leaf bolection-moulded two-panel timber doors to left and right, surmounted by transom lights and hood moulds; narrow window opening to left of centre. The west elevation has projecting gabled bay to left; right bay is wider. The north elevation has gabled bay to left with two round-headed windows to first floor; multi-paned round-headed window and double-leaf timber door with louvred vents to ground floor right. Right bay is flush with gable and has round-headed window to first floor centre; two six-panelled timber doors with segmental-headed transom lights to ground floor. The east elevation is five windows wide to first floor; ground floor concealed by scaffolding. Setting Set on a large paved plinth to the centre of Market Square in the heart of Dromore town centre. Surrounded to four-sides by terraced commercial premises, largely dating from the early to mid-nineteenth century. Tarmacadam parking area to west with cast iron weighbridge inscribed with the name 'Avery'. Town stocks (HB17/15/010B) to south wall. Roof: Natural slate Walling: brick Windows: Timber RWG: Not seen