Mourne View, 1 Manse Road, Ballyboley, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 1EY

Mourne View is a large two-storey farmhouse in Georgian vernacular style, built in the mid to late eighteenth century (possibly between 1740 and 1759), situated on the east side of Manse Road at a crossroads in Ballyboley. The building appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1834, suggesting it was well established by that date.

The main house is finished in rough cast render with a Bangor blue slated pitched roof, stone parapets, and five rendered chimney stacks. A mixture of cast iron and PVC rainwater goods are fitted. The south front elevation features a modern gabled porch with French doors and two-pane sidelights, positioned left of centre. On the ground floor to the right of the porch are three sash windows with Georgian panes set in very narrow plain surrounds. To the left of the porch are two similar windows, with six matching sash windows to the first floor. The two windows at the far right of the first floor are noticeably taller than the others at that level, suggesting this section may have been raised in height at some stage. The west gable faces onto Manse Road and has matching sash windows to both ground and first floors on its left side. A high castellated rendered wall with a large timber gateway encloses the yard adjacent to the north side of the west gable.

A slightly shorter two-storey store is attached to the east gable. A long rear lean-to extension, single storey and rendered, runs the full length of the rear facade. Its right half has a Bangor blue slated pitched roof; the left half consists of a conservatory with large modern windows and translucent PVC roof covering. A glazed door opens from the far right, with small windows either side. A timber stable door with glazed panel is fitted to the east facade. The rear of the main house first floor has four small sash windows with Georgian panes. The store section to the east has a corrugated asbestos roof and two modern-looking ground floor windows, with a loft door and small six-pane window above.

To the east and north of the house stands an extensive collection of outbuildings. The most significant is a small gabled rubble-built structure (possibly a stable) immediately north of the house, featuring an elliptical-headed arch to the ground floor of its south elevation and a small six-pane timber window with label moulding to the first floor. The stone eaves course extends to the gable, creating a broken pediment effect, and the pitched roof is covered in corrugated asbestos. Attached to its west facade is a very small single-storey gabled section, also rubble built, with Bangor blue slated roof and a tall diagonally positioned brick chimney stack. Its west gable, largely obscured by vegetation, retains a small timber door.

To the east of the house is a long two-storey gabled rubble-built store. East of this lies a courtyard bounded by slightly later outbuildings. The easternmost building, possibly a piggery dating from around 1910 to 1920, is a single-storey structure with distinctive roundel windows with brick dressings. Feeding troughs at ground level can be filled from outside, and the roof has unusual coursing. One of the outbuildings was recorded as inscribed 'Built by Mortimer Thompson AD 1856' at the time of the first survey in 1971.

The uneven arrangement of chimney stacks and the varying heights of first-floor windows on the eastern half of the front facade suggest portions of the building may have been altered or extended. The gabled porch appears to be twentieth century in origin. The layout of the current outbuilding collection does not correspond to those shown on the 1834 map.

The front garden is currently cluttered and overgrown. Across Manse Road to the west is a 1930s-style schoolhouse, roughly on the site of a former schoolhouse built by Lord Dufferin in 1834.