Church hall, Second Presbyterian Church, Killinchy Street, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5AP is a listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.

Church hall, Second Presbyterian Church, Killinchy Street, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5AP

WRENN ID
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Grade
Local Planning Authority
Ards and North Down
Constituency
Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
Country
Northern Ireland
Irish grid reference
J 459 690
Coordinates
54.54837, -5.74538
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

The site is that of a former single-storey school house, built between 1860 and 1879 and later used as a church hall. It was located to the rear of the Second Comber Presbyterian Church, to the west of Killinchy Street and south of Comber town centre. The original building was demolished in 1993 and replaced with a larger, two-storey hall. The former school house, as surveyed in March 1970, had a slated, gabled roof on its north face and west end. The walls were constructed of squared rubble, and it featured drop-hung windows with Georgian panes. A recent gabled entrance was located at the southeast corner, with a rendered, lined, and painted wall. The original building was funded largely by John Smyth of New Comber House, a session member, and was built alongside the manse. Primary source material relating to the site includes Ordnance Survey maps dated 1858 and 1901, held at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI). Further information is available in Norman Nevin's "The Story of Comber."

Local climate

Church hall, Second Presbyterian Church, Killinchy Street, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5AP sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% 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.

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