Derelict cottage, [?65] Killinchy Road, Cattogs, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5LU

A long, linear single-storey gabled vernacular dwelling with outhouses, situated on the east side of Killinchy Road just over a mile south of Comber, County Down. The building dates from before 1834 and is set on a gentle slope rising to the south and west, which means the structure comprises three sections rising progressively towards the rear.

The main house forms the central section, flanked by outbuildings to the north and south. The front façade faces east and is finished in roughcast and paint. The central house section has a timber-sheeted door positioned right of centre, with two widely-spaced sash windows with horizontal glazing bars to its left, and two similar windows arranged much closer together to its right. All windows have simple smooth render surrounds. The smaller southern outbuilding has a timber-sheeted door to the right and a small timber-boarded window. The longer northern outbuilding has a broad timber-sheeted stable door to the left and a narrower timber-sheeted door to the right.

The south gable is largely hidden in the hillside and is blank save for a small opening near the apex and a slightly larger one at ground level, both uncovered. The north gable is finished in much-dilapidated roughcast. The south gable is unrendered, revealing basalt rubble construction. At the rear of the south outbuilding is a long, low piggery-like extension with a mono-pitched roof and various brick-dressed square openings on the south side. The rear of the central house section has a further gabled section with an unevenly pitched roof, suggesting a later lean-to addition. A chimney breast rises from the north gable of this section, with a boarded window to its left and a dilapidated timber-sheeted door to its right.

The roof is mainly covered in Bangor blue slates except for the section over the south outbuilding's rear, which has corrugated asbestos and corrugated iron sheeting. The building has three chimney stacks to the main roof (two brick, one part-rendered), with remnants of cast iron rainwater goods surviving.

The property appears on Ordnance Survey maps of 1834, 1858 and 1901, matching the current plan though without the piggery extension shown in 1834. The uniformity of the front windows and their frames suggests renovation around 1900 or shortly after. The building was not of rateable value at the first valuation survey around 1833 and is therefore not recorded in that survey. The property was abandoned during the 1960s and is now derelict and in poor condition.