Moss Bank, 56 Ballycreelly Road, Ballycreelly, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5PX

Moss Bank is a substantial two-storey gentleman farmer's residence of circa 1850, located on a slight rise to the west of Ballycreelly Road, approximately two miles north of Ballygowan. The house has a large complex of outbuildings attached at the rear and is Grade B1 listed.

The main body of the house retains its original hipped roof (with a flattened centre) and appears largely intact both internally and externally. The symmetrical front (east) façade is dominated by a central flat-roofed porch containing a narrow double door with plain fanlight. The timber door features semicircular arch-headed panels with fan-like spandrels and is encased with a simple moulded architrave with keystone. The porch has pilaster quoins, a moulded cornice and parapet, and narrow semicircular arch-headed sash windows with simple architraves to its north and south faces. Two steps lead to the doorway.

Flanking the porch are large four-pane windows with frames that appear to be sash but are actually fixed. The first floor has three windows: the two outer windows have sash frames with vertical glazing bars, whilst the central window features a double sash frame with semicircular arch heads to the upper panes only. This central window is set within a marginally projecting bay. All upper floor windows are set on a cill course.

The front façade displays plain pilaster quoins and rusticated render at ground floor level (excluding the porch area), with plain render to the first floor. The roof is covered in Bangor blue slates and has two central chimney stacks with plain rendered and corbelled construction, topped with original octagonal pots. Cast iron rainwater goods are present.

The north façade has a window to the left on the ground floor matching the outer windows of the first floor front. The south façade similarly has a matching window to the right on the ground floor, with a sash window bearing Georgian panes to the left on the first floor. A single-storey conservatory or greenhouse has been attached to the left of the south façade, now in poor condition and partly obscured by vegetation.

At the rear left, there is a small sash window with Georgian panes to the ground floor and a similar but taller window to the first floor. To the right of these windows is a two-storey gabled return. The north face of this return has a sash window to the ground floor and a much smaller fixed light single pane window to the first floor. The rear west gable of the return contains a small window with modern frame to the right on the first floor.

The south side of the return is attached to a long two-storey gabled wing with a series of large modern picture windows to its west and east faces. This wing connects to a large two-storey gabled outbuilding to the south. The north, south and west façades of the main house are finished in plain render. All roofing is Bangor blue slate.

The long south wing, which may once have contained farm labourers' dwellings, has been modernised and now appears to function as bedrooms or possibly a self-contained apartment. The listing extends to the main house and outbuildings but excludes this modernised rear wing.

Historical records indicate that an earlier dwelling occupied this general site circa 1834, positioned slightly to the south of the present house. The 1858 Ordnance Survey map shows the current building with its outbuildings marked as Mossbank. The property likely dates from between 1834 and 1858, with circa 1850 being probable based on its architectural character. Documentary evidence suggests the house was probably built by John Montgomery, who held the earlier property at the time of the first valuation survey in 1834. By circa 1863, Montgomery's representatives were in possession of Mossbank, and contemporary records mention labourers' houses in association with the property, possibly referring to the long south wing.