The Shambles, Dromore Road, Hillsborough, County Down, BT26 6AQ

Attached symmetrical U-plan range of rubblestone single-storey market building, built 1829. Located on the east side of Dromore Road arranged around a green space enclosed to Dromore Road by decorative cast-iron railings. No longer in use. Arranged around a lawned space with the central spine on a north-south axis to the east of the green having a central raised carriage house and pair of projections to the north and south. Single pitched natural slate roof with black brick coping to the wall. Hipped natural slate roof to the central carriage house with lead ridges. Cast-iron rainwater goods on iron brackets. Rubblestone walling with redbrick window and gate linings to the carriage house, north screen wall and rear east elevation, painted brick walling to remainder. Elliptical-headed openings to ground level with replacement glazed timber doors and fixed-pane windows. The south projection is largely an open arcade with cast-iron columns supporting the roof The raised carriage house has roughly squared sandstone quoins and a three-centred redbrick carrige arch with cobbled floor and sandstone eaves course. East elevation fronting onto Park Lane has a central gable (corresponding to the carriage house) and diminutive elliptical-headed redbrick lined window openings on a raised continuous sandstone sill course with fixed-pane glazing. Single round-headed opening to the carriage house formed in redbrick with iron pedestrian gate. Setting: To the west elevation of the north projection is a tall rubblestone screen wall with sandstone coping and a single square-headed window opening formed in redbrick. The wall also encloses the rear yard to No.1 Park Lane (HB19/05/149B), and continues at an angle with an elliptical-headed opening formed in redbrick with steel pedestrian gate. Cobblestone front the entire elevation facing the green with an iron weighbridge to the north screen wall and three granite bollards. The green is enclosed to Dromore Road by decorative cast-iron railings on a low plinth wall with sandstone coping and matching gates and cylindrical decorative cast-iron piers. Roof Single pitched natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Rubblestone / painted brick Windows Replacement fixed-pane