St Bronach's Parochial Hall, (Stella Maris building), 9-11 Bridge Street, Rostrevor, Co Down, BT34 3BG

St Bronach's Parochial Hall (Stella Maris building), 9-11 Bridge Street, Rostrevor

A substantial two and a half storey rendered and gabled building of 1901, originally a hotel and public house, now a parochial hall. It is set at the end of a short mixed terrace on the southwest side of Bridge Street.

The front facade faces roughly north and is rendered and painted, topped with a moulded eaves course. All roof sections are slated with red clay parapets and ridge tiles. Two large but relatively narrow hipped roof dormers front the main section, each with 2/2 sash windows to the front and sides glazed with long narrow panes. The dormer roofs are slated with red clay ridge tiles and simple finials. Two gable brick chimneystacks stand on the main roof, with another set lengthways on the right of the return, each with stepped corbelling. Cast iron rainwater goods are installed throughout.

The asymmetrical front elevation features a pedestrian doorway with panelled timber double door and boarded-over segmental fanlight to the left of centre on the ground floor. To its left is a relatively large segmental-headed window with mullioned and transomed frame, with three small panes over a full rectangular one; the central upper pane opens in hopper fashion. The large lower pane is a relatively recent replacement—originally there were three panes separated by two mullions. The window has a flush bevelled sill and bevelled edge reveals. To the right of the doorway is an identical window, with another doorway to the far right featuring glazed upper panels and a fully exposed two-pane fanlight. A moulded string course above the ground floor openings follows the curve of the segmental heads.

On the first floor to the far left is a pair of relatively tall, narrow segmental-arched plain sash windows on a shared sill with bevelled edge reveals. To the right is an identical single window, with another pair to the right and a final single window to the far right. These openings are topped with an angular string course in line with the flat arches. A straight string course runs directly below first floor sill level.

The broad east gable contains a 2/2 sash window to the left on the ground floor. To the far right is a small plain lean-to without openings. On the first floor is a narrow window with modern frame, to its right a much narrower window with 2/2 sash frame, and to the centre-right a broader window with modern frame. At attic level to the left of centre is a sash window with Georgian-type panes (3/3). The gable and lean-to are finished in plain painted render.

Much of the rear elevation is covered by a broad two-storey gabled return, with a narrower mono-pitched roof two-storey section to its west side. The latter section is exposed to the south side only, where at ground floor is a small lean-to porch with plain timber sheeted door, and at first floor a tall narrow window with relatively recent three-pane frame.

The left-hand half of the gable of the large return projects. At ground floor of this half is a window with modern six-pane frame; at first floor a smaller window with modern two-pane frame. The ground floor of the right-hand side of the gable is covered by a large flat-roofed extension. On the west face is a door and boarded-up window; on the south face another door; on the east face (flush with the return's east face) is a large window with modern frame. The first floor of the right-hand side of the gable has a window with modern frame. The east face of the return has a large 2/2 sash window at ground floor. This face of the return and the east face of the flat-roofed extension are rendered and painted as the gable itself. The rear elevation is finished in plain unpainted render.

Immediately to the east of the building is a vehicle gateway with tall plain timber gates and a tall square pyramidal-capped pier on the west side, with a short length of wall to the west of this (flush with the front elevation and rendered and painted in the same fashion).