Presbyterian Church Manse, 2 Newtownards Road, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2QQ is a listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 20 December 1976.

Presbyterian Church Manse, 2 Newtownards Road, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2QQ

WRENN ID
last-tracery-hawk
Grade
Local Planning Authority
Ards and North Down
Constituency
Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
Country
Northern Ireland
Date first listed
20 December 1976
Irish grid reference
J 578 679
Coordinates
54.53569, -5.56145
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

Also on this page: radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Presbyterian Church Manse

A substantial two-storey gabled manse built circa 1860–70, set on a slight rise to the southwest side of Newtownards Road in Greyabbey. The building served the nearby Trinity Presbyterian Church.

The front (northeast) elevation is symmetrical. At the centre of the ground floor sits a central doorway, now fitted with a PVC panelled door, PVC fanlight and sidelights, sheltered by a simple projecting concrete flat roof in 1950s–60s style. To either side of the doorway are single sash windows with horizontal and vertical astragals, the two centre vertical astragals unusually positioned close together. Three similar evenly spaced sash windows occupy the first floor.

The northwest gable contains a PVC window (made to resemble a sash with 'Georgian' panes) to the right on the ground floor, and a small pointed-arch attic window with 'Y' tracery gothic frame set high in the eaves. The southeast gable has a similar attic window and two PVC windows on the first floor at slightly different levels, with two further windows of varying size on the ground floor to the left.

A two-storey gabled return is attached to the right side of the rear, featuring PVC windows (matching those on the main gables) to ground and first floor on its east side. A modern single-storey flat-roofed extension with large PVC window and glazed door has been joined to the northwest side of the return and rear of the main house. The first floor rear elevation of the main house has two further PVC windows.

A long rubble-built outbuilding is attached to the southwest gable of the return.

The front façade is finished in lined render with chamfered quoins; the remainder is rough-cast render. The main house and return have pitched roofs clad in Bangor blue slates with two yellow brick chimney stacks; the return gable has a rendered chimney stack. The building is fitted with a mixture of cast-iron and PVC rainwater goods.

Although an earlier structure appears on the Ordnance Survey map of circa 1860, the present manse was probably constructed between 1860 and 1870. The gabled return does not appear to be original and may have been added in the early 1900s. A kitchen extension was built in 1986.

Local climate

Presbyterian Church Manse, 2 Newtownards Road, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2QQ sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • No flood data for this area
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. First Presbyterian Church, Newtownards Road, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 Grade B1 36 m
  2. First Presbyterian Church Manse, 24 Main Street, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2NE Grade B2 62 m
  3. 12 Main Street, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2NE Grade Record Only 73 m
  4. 10 Main Street, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2NE Grade Record Only 77 m
  5. 8 Main Street, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2NE Grade Record Only 80 m
  6. 2 Main Street, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2NE Grade B2 91 m
  7. 3 The Square, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2QA Grade B2 93 m
  8. Trinity Presbyterian Church, Main Street, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2NE Grade B2 95 m
  9. 5 Main Street, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2NE Grade Record Only 96 m
  10. BT kiosk, Main Street, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2NE Grade B2 98 m