Irish National Foresters' Hall 37 Bridge Street Rostrevor BT34 3BG

Two-storey end of terrace hall of domestic appearance, built in 1881 as an RIC station, but seemingly repurposed as a dwelling house in the 1920s following fire damage, before being converted to its current use as a hall c.1946-47. SETTING A prominent village setting, at the south end of the terrace of the SW side of Bridge Street, at the junction with Horner’s Lane, just N of the bridge over the Kilbroney River. GENERAL The building consists of the main gable-ended section facing on to Bridge Street. To the rear there is a relatively large double-pile two-storey return with a single-storey flat-roofed addition to the rear (SW) of this FRONT (NE) ELEVATION Symmetrical. Three openings wide and finished in painted lined render with raised ‘in-out’ quoins. Central timber doorway with applied ‘panelling’ (possibly a recent replacement), and large boarded up overlight (with extractor fan.) Standard ratio window either side, each with a 2 /2 timber sash frame, painted stone cill and decorative wrought-iron security railings. Three similar windows to the upper floor (without railings). All openings set in typically late Victorian bevelled reveals. Tall flagpole attached to wall to immediate left of central upper level window. SE ELEVATION Asymmetrical. To right is the gable of the main block which has two windows to each floor, as front but with replacement four-pane frames. Between these is a central ‘reducing’ chimneybreast. To left of the gable is the S side of the return which has a plain sheeted door set within a projecting porch to right at ground level, with a window to left of this and two windows to the upper floor, all as previous. The porch has a narrow window to its W-facing side. The (blank) side of the addition is to far left of this elevation. The gable and the return are finished as the front elevation, but without quoins to the addition. There is a small area to this side of the building enclosed wrought-iron railings. SW ELEVATION The ground level (the addition) has a left of centre doorway with plain sheeted double door. The upper level consists largely of the double gable of the return and here there is an upper level doorway - with plain sheeted door - to left of centre. ROOF The roof is covered in natural slate and has an overhang with replacement PVC bargeboards. There are three replacement brick chimneystacks which would appear to be much in the style of the originals. The roof of the addition could not be seen. The RW goods appear to be a mixture of cast-iron and PVC.