Former market house, The Square, Crossgar, Co Down, BT30 9EE

Relatively plain, two storey gabled market house of 1829, typical of its type and era but with ground floor archways now blocked. The building is set on the E side of The Square, at the junction of John Street. The front façade faces roughly W and is generally symmetrical. To the ground floor are three large semicircular arched recessed which were undoubtedly originally open. The recess to the right has a timber sheeted doorway with adjoining window to its left (now boarded). The central recess has a narrower window (also boarded), and the left hand recess has a broad window as recess to right. To the right of the right recess there is another narrow window (also boarded). To the right of this window there used to be a doorway. To the first floor are six sash windows (with vertical astragals) arranged almost symmetrically. Between the 3rd and 4th window is a clock face. The front façade is finished in painted rough cast with simple surrounds to openings. The N gable is abutted by a single storey house. The exposed upper portion of the gable is in random rubble. The S gable has a window to the left on the first floor. This gable is finished in painted rough cast. Covering almost the whole of the rear is a single storey lean-to, whose roofline merges with that of the main roof. To the centre of the lean-to is a taller gabled section. To the left of the E façade of the lean-to is a small window, with a similar window to far right. To the central gabled section there is a timber sheeted doorway (set at a high level- the ground level is slightly higher to this side of the building) with boarded up fanlight. The lean-to is finished in unpainted rough cast. The left (S) half of the lean-to has a corrugated asbestos roof, the right half a corrugated iron roof, and the central portion a (natural) slate roof. The roof of the main building is covered in natural slate also, with a rendered chimney stack to each gable.