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

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.