16 Bridge St, Rostrevor, Co.Down

A two-storey terraced building dating from around 1850, the architect unknown. The building comprises a chemist's shop at ground floor with a dwelling above, positioned on the north-east side of Bridge Street within the Rostrevor Conservation Area. It has a rectangular plan form facing south-west with two separate monopitched single-storey rear returns.

The pitched fibre cement tile roof features black clay ridge tiles and projecting eaves course with metal rainwater goods. A rectangular section chimney to the south-east, shared with No. 18, carries two buff clay pots and two terracotta clay pots. Cast iron polygonal hopper and circular-section downpipe are shared with No. 18.

The principal elevation faces south-west onto the public footpath along Bridge Street. The glazed shop front sits to the north-west and is flanked by wide painted timber panels with moulded timber corbels to their top, appearing to be part of an earlier shopfront. The shop window has an aluminium frame, with the shop door located to the south-east side of the window as an aluminium-framed door with glazed top and bottom halves. Modern signage includes a projecting roller shutter casing with fluorescent lighting and raised lettering reading 'McKeevers Chemists', plus a wall-mounted metal sign with a green cross. A tripartite window at first-floor level sits in-line with the shop front centre, comprising a double-hung 4/4 sliding timber central sash with timber mullions and four-pane fixed sidelights. A single bay to the south-east contains a four-panelled painted timber door opening onto a single granite step leading to the dwelling. A square-headed fanlight sits above the door, with brass furniture and a double-hung 6/6 sliding timber sash window at first-floor level in-line with the door. A projecting brass 'pestle and mortar' motif sits at first-floor level between the shop front and dwelling entrance. The elevation is generally rendered and lined, painted, with square-headed window and door openings. The building adjoins No. 14 Bridge Street to the north-west and No. 18 Bridge Street to the south-east.

The north-east rear elevation is irregular in fenestration. Four uPVC casement windows sit at first-floor level—two diminutive windows at the centre and two larger two-part side-opening casements at either end. A three-part uPVC casement window sits at ground-floor level in the walling between the rear returns, overlooking a rear concrete yard. A monopitched rear return to the north-west serves the chemist's shop, with a corrugated asbestos roof, a wide top-opening timber casement window and smaller uPVC casement window to its south-east elevation, and a painted sheet metal door also to the south-east. Slim concrete cills run along this return. The monopitched rear return to the south-east serves the dwelling, with a fibre cement tile roof and skylight, and a painted flush timber door with glazed top half to its north-west elevation. A store building abuts this return to the north-east, constructed of coursed reconstituted stone blocks, with a painted flush timber door and three-part timber casement window to the north-east side of the door. The rear elevation is rendered and textured, painted, with uPVC rainwater goods.

The building forms part of a terrace of shops with dwellings over, located on the north-east side of Bridge Street, which descends from Rostrevor's Square at its north-west end to a triple-span bridge over the Rostrevor River at its south-east end.

Materials include fibre cement roof tiles, cast iron and uPVC rainwater goods, rendered walling, and timber sliding sash, timber casement and uPVC windows.