20 The Square Rostrevor BT34 3AZ

Informal two-storey end of terrace house of probable pre-1830s construction, converted to its present use as a café c.2022. SETTING At the centre of the village of Rostrevor, on the N side of The Square. GENERAL The building consists of the main two-storey gable-ended front block facing S into The Square and a full-height back return. There appears to be a small single-storey extension to the rear (N) end of the return. To the rear of the property is a long narrow strip plot with some outbuildings to the S end and a long garden to N of this. FRONT (S) ELEVATION Asymmetric. Right of centre entrance with relatively recent panelled timber door and boarded up overlight. Smaller doorway (presumably an access to the rear) to far right with timber T&G door. Two windows of slightly differing widths - but both roughly ‘standard’ ratio - to left of entrance with timber 6/6 sash frames and painted stone cills. Three similar windows to the first floor, none of which are in line with any of the ground level openings; the cills of the upper windows are broader than their respective openings, whilst those below match the width of their openings. This elevation is finished plain painted render. W ELEVATION The gable of the main front block of the building faces into a narrow passage. It is rendered and appears to be devoid of openings. The rest of the elevation could not be observed, nor could anything of the rear elevation. ROOF etc The main block has a double-pitch roof covered in asbestos tiles (to front at least). Two rendered chimneystacks. Cast-iron downspout and PVC guttering to front.