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

Mourne View is a large two-storey Georgian vernacular gabled farmhouse of pre-1834 construction, finished throughout in roughcast render. It stands on the east side of Manse Road at Ballyboley, adjacent to a crossroads, and is accompanied by a substantial range of outbuildings.

The main house features a Bangor blue slated pitched roof with stone parapets and five rendered chimney stacks, with a mixture of cast iron and PVC rainwater goods. A single-storey lean-to extension runs the full length of the rear facade, and a more recent gabled porch with French doors projects from the south front.

The south-facing front elevation is asymmetrical. Left of the central gabled porch are three sash windows with Georgian panes and very narrow plain surrounds at ground floor level; to the right of the porch are a further three similar windows. The porch itself has modern two-pane sidelights and modern windows to its east and west sides. The first floor has six sash windows with Georgian panes, with two slightly taller windows at the far right. An attached two-storey store, slightly shorter than the main house, is located at the east gable.

The west gable sits directly on Manse Road and contains sash windows on both ground and first floors to the left. The left side of this gable merges with a high castellated rendered wall featuring a large gateway with timber gates, enclosing the yard.

The rear lean-to extension has a glazed door at its far right with small windows either side. Its right half retains a Bangor blue slated pitched roof, while the left (east) half has been converted to a conservatory with large modern windows and translucent PVC roof covering. A plain sheeted timber stable door with glazed panel opens from the east facade. The main house rear facade has four small first-floor windows with Georgian panes. The attached store has a corrugated asbestos roof and modern-looking ground-floor windows, with a loft door and six-pane window above.

To the east and north of the main house stands a significant collection of outbuildings. The most interesting is a small gabled rubble-built structure, possibly the oldest on the site, with an elliptical-headed arch to the ground floor of its south elevation and a six-pane timber window with label moulding above on the first floor. The stone eaves course continues to the gable, creating a broken pediment effect, with corrugated asbestos to the pitched roof. Attached to its west facade is a very small single-storey gabled rubble-built section with Bangor blue slated roof and a diagonally positioned tall brick chimney stack; its west gable retains a small timber door, though much is obscured by vegetation.

A long two-storey gabled rubble-built store stands to the east of the main house. Further east is a courtyard bounded by more recently constructed outbuildings, the easternmost being a single-storey building, possibly a piggery, with distinctive roundel windows with brick dressings and feeding troughs at ground level that can be filled from outside. This section displays unusual coursing to its slate roof.

The garden to the south front is overgrown and cluttered in appearance.