McConnell's yard, High Street, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5QE

McConnell's yard is a walled yard complex on the north side of High Street in Comber, situated between numbers 5 and 7. The site probably dates from the 1830s, though the buildings appear to have been constructed closer to the mid-1850s.

The yard is bounded to the south by a high wall of random rubble with a large carriage gateway featuring timber-sheeted double doors. Within the yard, the buildings form an L-shaped grouping along the north and west sides. These are predominantly single-storey lean-to structures with mono-pitch roofs, constructed in sandstone rubble with rough-hewn natural slate from Tullycavy, which appears to have been tarred. On the south side of the yard, against the boundary wall, stands an open shelter-like store with sandstone rubble walls and a corrugated asbestos roof.

The western grouping has three doorways with chamfered sandstone dressings and metal-sheeted doors, while the northern range has two similar doorways and three small window openings, now boarded or blocked though two retain remnants of sash frames. Four small cast-iron skylights in the roof of the western grouping have also been covered in tar. At the northeast corner of the yard, a flight of stone steps leads up to an upper-level doorway on the west gable of a larger two-storey outbuilding set further north. This building is constructed partly in brick and partly in rubble, with a large carriage doorway on its ground floor, flanked by smaller doorways, all with timber-sheeted doors. The building abuts the rear of a two-storey outbuilding belonging to number 5.

The yard itself is mostly grass-covered with a tarmac drive beyond the main entrance. A telegraph pole stands to the east side. The complex is currently in poor condition and used for storage.

Historical records show that the site was occupied by small terraced houses or cabins in the 1720s. A map accompanying the 1833 valuation shows a longer building on the general site, while the revised Ordnance Survey map of 1858 depicts the yard much as it appears today. The yard was originally known as Millings Yard, after the family who once lived nearby on the west side of The Square. The Millings later sold it to a Mr McConnell, from whom it takes its current name. It is now privately owned.