22 Bridge St., Rostrevor, Co.Down

22 Bridge Street, Rostrevor

A two-storey, three-bay terraced building with a shop on the ground floor and dwelling above, built around 1850. The architect is unknown. The building has a rectangular plan facing southwest, with a pitched roof and a two-storey pitched roof return projecting to the right (northeast) side, and a later two-storey flat-roofed return to its left (southeast) side. It forms part of a terrace of similar height buildings along Bridge Street, on the northeast side of the street, and sits within the Rostrevor Conservation Area.

The main principal elevation faces southwest onto the public footpath. The ground floor contains a shop with a painted timber window consisting of three lights in width, with a depressed pointed arch spanning over two painted timber mullions. The shop window is flanked by two separate painted four-panelled timber doors with brass furniture, square-headed fanlights with seven small panes above, and a long semi-circular headed side light to one side. Above the shop window and door is a projecting painted timber shop sign board with dentilated cornice, lead flashing and underlit lighting, displaying 'WOK WAY CHINESE CARRY OUT'. The first floor has three double hung 6/6 sliding timber sash windows with slim painted concrete cills, aligned with the ground floor openings; two windows are grouped towards the northwest.

The roof is natural slate with angled black clay ridge tiles. Cast iron rainwater goods and projecting eaves cornice front the main elevation, with half-round guttering discharging to circular-section downpipes. Two modern skylights are visible to the rear of the pitched roof. The flat-roofed rear return has uPVC ogee guttering discharging to square-section downpipes. A rendered rectangular-section chimney to the northwest, shared with No. 20, has three terracotta clay pots.

The walling has a generally painted lined smooth render finish to the southwest elevation with a modern brown tiled plinth. The northeast and rear elevations have smooth cement render, except for the flat-roofed return which has vertically sheeted painted timber walling. The rear elevation features a two-part casement window at first floor level and a modern circular-section galvanised metal flue extracting above the gable at ground floor level. The flat-roofed return has two uPVC casement windows at first floor level and a sheeted timber door.

The building is attached to No. 20 Bridge Street on its northwest side and No. 24 Bridge Street on its southeast side. All three buildings (numbered 26A-C in the heritage record) form a terrace of shops with dwellings, located on Bridge Street between Rostrevor's Square and a triple-span bridge over the Rostrevor River.