Dromore Conservation Area

Location: Co. Down
Designation date: 28 August 1992

Dromore is a Cathedral town of ancient origins, situated in drumlin country on the River Lagan.

It has a distinct architectural character with most of its buildings facades dating from the 19^th or early 20^th Century.

These buildings are varied in architectural style.

They range from austere classical forms of the traditional buildings of Irish country towns, through the ornate almost fanciful buildings of Ulster’s great period of industrial prosperity in the late 19^th and early 20^th Century, to the modernist 1960’s.

Many of these buildings are rich in interesting vernacular craftsmanship and give evidence of a time in the not-too-distant past when the buildings of Dromore were the subject of considerable civic pride.

The design guide generally provides information on the planning context, historical development, description or character appraisal of the area, the designation and guidelines for development proposals.