9-11 Kilmore Village(Masons Bar), Crossgar, Co Down, BT30 9HP

Kilmore Village, Crossgar

A relatively plain two-storey terrace block comprising a public house dating from around 1865-70 and a dwelling house of perhaps around 1840. The terrace stands on the east side of the main road running through the small village of Kilmore, roughly a mile south-west of Crossgar.

The public house (No. 11) occupies the north end of the terrace and is slightly taller than its neighbour, with the height difference emphasised by a rise in ground level at this end. The front façade faces roughly west and is symmetrical. To the left of centre on the ground floor is a timber-sheeted double door with a plain rectangular fanlight, flanked to the left by a sash window with Georgian panes (6/6). To the right of the doorway is a similar-sized window with margin panes and a central horizontal glazing bar to the top sash and etched glazing to the lower sash. A further doorway of the same type is positioned to the right, with another matching window to its right. Above the central window and doorways is a traditional timber signboard. The first floor has five windows matching the far left ground floor window. The north gable features a first-floor window of the same type, largely obscured by ivy growth, as is much of the gable itself. At the right-hand edge of the gable a tall rendered wall abuts the building (removed in 2004). The rear façade has a modern, utilitarian single-storey extension with flat corrugated iron roof on the ground floor to the left, with a small lean-to shed and timber-sheeted door to the north side. The extension extends to a large two-storey rubble-built gabled outbuilding. The main rear façade of the pub has two window openings on the first floor to the left: the first matches the first-floor front windows, whilst the second is boarded over. A timber-sheeted door accessed by a modern fire escape stair stands at the far right. The entire façade is rendered with the front and gable painted. The gabled roof is slate-covered with two rendered chimney stacks, the north one largely covered in ivy growth. Cast iron rainwater goods are fitted throughout.

The house (No. 9) has a long front façade following the angle of the street. Documentary evidence suggests the property was once two separate dwellings. Part of the ground floor at the far left now belongs to the pub, but was formerly integrated with the house. To the right of centre on the ground floor stands a late Victorian-style gabled porch with a panelled timber door to the north face and a plain rectangular fanlight. The west and south faces each contain a sash window with horizontal glazing bars and margin panes. The porch roof is slate-covered with plain barges and a finial. To the left of the porch window are three sash windows with Georgian panes (6/6). To the right of the porch is a window matching the porch windows. The first floor has five windows matching those to the left on the ground floor. The façade is rendered and painted, with a large section obscured by thick ivy growth. From the rear, the southern section of the house is seen to be double-gabled, though much of this rear gabled portion belongs to the adjoining properties to the south, which now form a modernised block containing apartments. The north gable of this rear section has a modern window and glazed door to the ground floor and a window matching the front to the first floor. To the east, this section is abutted by a slightly lower two-storey gabled wing, which also belongs to the apartments to the south, though it may originally have belonged to this property. The rear façade of the main section has two first-floor windows and one to the left on the ground floor, all matching the front windows. A panelled door at the far right on the ground floor belongs to the pub. The whole rear elevation is finished in unpainted rough cast. The gabled roof is slate-covered with three rendered chimney stacks. Cast iron rainwater goods are fitted throughout.