15 Main Street, Killinchy, Co Down, BT23 6PN

This is a small, single-storey house located at 15 Main Street, Killinchy, originally built around 1833, or possibly earlier, and initially used as a police station. The building has undergone significant alterations and extensions, resulting in a largely modern appearance with limited original features remaining.

The property sits at the northern end of a terrace on the west side of Main Street. The front facade, facing east, features a recently installed timber-sheeted and glazed front door positioned slightly left of centre. To the left of the door is a square window with a PVC frame, and a similar window is located to the right. The north gable is blank. The rear is dominated by a large, single-storey return extending across two levels, with two PVC windows facing north and PVC ‘patio’ doors on the gable end. Attached to this gable are two small, gabled outbuildings constructed from rubble. The western outbuilding was formerly a police cell and is inscribed “BUILT 1833”; the eastern outbuilding appears to be inscribed "CAMPBELL S 1880". The entire house facade is finished in rough cast. The main roof is gabled and covered with pan tiles, while the return roof is similar but incorporates two large Velux windows. Two rendered chimney stacks project from the main roof, and the building has PVC rainwater goods.

Historical records indicate the building served as a police station and is depicted as such on an Ordnance Survey map from 1834. The former police cell, now an outbuilding, is inscribed “Built 1883”, which may refer only to the cell itself and not the main building's initial construction. Valuation records from 1835 identified the property as a ‘Police Station’. By 1861, it had transitioned to a private dwelling. The original building likely consisted of only two rooms, with the cell and a stable located at the rear. A return was added around 1860, although the current return structure dates mainly from the 1980s.