Temperance Hall, Dromore Street, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 4BS

A symmetrical two-storey-over semi-basement gabled hall built c.1880 and located to the east side of Dromore Street in Banbridge town centre. Rectangular on plan. Pitched natural slate roof with raised masonry verges and kneeler stones; ball finial to northwest gable. Cast iron half-round rainwater goods on corbelled eaves. Walling is ruled-and-lined painted render with raised quoins on a chamfered plinth to entrance bay; smooth render to southeast gable; Flemish-bonded red-brick to northeast and southwest elevations. Windows are segmental-arched multi-paned metal casements; those to entrance bay have moulded architraves; those to northeast and southwest elevations are square-headed with flat brick lintels and timber sills. The principal elevation is gabled and faces northwest; simply detailed with paired windows to centre at first floor, a large door-case to centre at ground floor and a continuous sill course between floors. Applied lettering in a moulded band to gable reads “TEMPERANCE HALL”. Segmental-arched door-case with three-stage rebated opening to off-set plinth, flanked by fluted pilasters with keyblock. Door-case contains four-panelled double-leaf timber doors accessed by two concrete steps. The northeast elevation has three windows to first floor and four windows to ground floor; to right is the rendered entrance bay having a metal casement window to first floor. The southeast (rear) gable comprises on ground floor a blind window to left of centre, a timber-sheeted door with square-headed overlight to right of centre and a futher blind window to far right; remainder of elevation blank. The southwest elevation has six windows to first floor and seven windows to ground floor. To right, at basement level, are two blind windows and a blind entrance door to far right. The walling is exposed flemish-bonded red-brick except for a stepped rendered plinth and far left bay. Setting Street-fronted, set back from the road with rendered boundary wall having saddleback coping stones topped by original metal railings; to centre are slender metal gate piers with ball finials supporting original metal gates. Surrounded to all sides by nineteenth-century terrace housing; some of those to northeast and southwest have been converted for commercial use. To south is a large car-park. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Render / Brick Windows: Metal RWG: Cast-iron