Ulster Bank, 11 Church Street, Dromore, Banbridge, Co Down, BT25 1AA

A neo-Baroque style three-bay two-storey terraced red-brick Ulster Bank to designs by Henry Hobart, dated 1920 and located to the south side of Church Street in Dromore town centre. Rectangular plan with two-storey return and two-storey extension (of no interest) to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles and raised stone verges; red-brick chimneystacks to gables having moulded sandstone caps and decorative arcaded parapet punctuated by panelled piers to northeast elevation. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on ovolo moulded and dentilled eaves. Walling is Flemish-bonded red-brick with sandstone dressings to first floor and channelled ashlar sandstone to ground floor; smooth render to rear. Windows are divided metal casements opening on a hinge in moulded sandstone surrounds with three-stage keyblock and sandstone sills ; timber-framed sashes to rear. The principal elevation faces northeast and is symmetrically arranged five windows wide with segmental-headed broken pediment to break-front central bay; rising from decorative sandstone pilasters with scrolled detail to base. Datestone to pediment. Ground floor has slightly projecting tall round-headed openings to both ends at ground floor flanking five ground floor windows (group of tree to breakfront central bay with “Ulster Bank” sign to fascia over). Round-headed openings have alcoved reveals surmounted by hood moulds with keyblock; that to right contains a window and is partially infilled with ATM; that to left contains a wide raised-and-fielded six-panel timber door with brass door furniture, surmounted by round-headed transom light with dentilled timber frieze, decorated pedimented keyblock and carved head stops; accessed via a single bull-nosed stone step. The southeast elevation is abutted by adjoining building. The southwest (rear) elevation is abutted to right by the two-storey return with hipped roof, which is abutted at right by the lower two-storey extension (of no interest). Exposed left bay has a window to first and ground floor. Return has a variety of windows including a large steel opening to ground floor. The northwest elevation is abutted by an adjoining building. Setting Street-fronted to the south side of Church Street, forming part of a largely nineteenth-century terrace leading west from Market Square. Sandstone plinth wall to front, open to centre. Enclosed yard to rear bounded to river to south by mature trees and hedgerow. Roof: Natural slate Walling: brick & stone Windows: Metal and timber RWG: Cast-iron