Woburn Memorial Hall, (near the Parish church), Woburn Road, Drumfad, Millisle, Newtownards, Co Down, BT22

Woburn Memorial Hall

A single storey gabled parish hall built in 1892 from snecked random basalt rubble with sandstone dressings, situated on the southeast side of Woburn Road approximately one mile east of Carrowdore at the entrance to the lane leading to the parish church.

The hall was built as a gift to the parish of Carrowdore from Georgiana Dunbar-Buller of Woburn in memory of her elder brother, Captain John Dunbar, who died in 1884. Originally the building comprised a hall, small classroom, parochial library and a caretaker's house, the latter remaining occupied until the 1960s. In 1966 new toilet and kitchen facilities were installed, and the structure underwent further renovation in the early 1990s when PVC windows were added throughout.

The northwest elevation features a gabled porch projection to the right with a timber sheeted double door set within an elliptical arch headed doorway with chamfered sandstone dressings and square label moulding with carved drops. A sandstone band above the doorway bears a carved inscription. The porch contains small two-pane PVC windows to both northeast and southwest elevations. To the right of the porch is a large mullioned PVC window, with two similar examples to the left. A chimney breast between these windows rises to the roof and supports a tall, unusually shaped yellow brick chimney stack. To the far left of the front facade stands a larger gabled projection. Its northwest elevation contains a large window with chamfered sandstone surround, comprising two sets of three lights arranged one above the other with sandstone mullions. The lower lights are taller with flat arch heads and PVC frames, while the smaller upper lights have PVC frames but elliptical arch heads. Between the two sets of lights are carved sandstone panels with decorative initials, with a square label moulding above the window. The southwest gable has a similar window arrangement but with small lights instead of panels. The northeast gable contains a timber sheeted double door to the left with chamfered sandstone surround and three-light fanlight with sandstone mullions, flanked by windows with PVC frames—one broader but squatter at the upper level.

This northeast gable merges with the northeast facade of a rear gabled projection, which has a PVC window. The rear elevation contains a PVC window to the left matching those at the front, with a chimney breast to its left. At the far right is a large gabled projection with PVC windows at both ground and upper levels on the rear gable. Attached to the southwest facade of this projection and the rear facade of the main building is a lean-to-like projection with a timber sheeted door and two small fixed-light PVC windows to its rear facade; the window to the left of this projection appears to have originally been a doorway.

The pitched roofs are covered with Bangor blue slates and feature overhangs. PVC ogee gutters and square downspouts are present throughout. All windows now have grills. Decorative cast iron railings are retained at the road side to the front.

The northeast section of the building, formerly the caretaker's house, originally had two chimney stacks which were removed at some point, possibly shortly after the house ceased to be occupied around the 1960s. Recent modernisation has substantially altered the building's fenestration, though the structure remains substantially intact.