Site of former grain store, off Castle Street, Comber, Co. Down

This site, located north of Castle Street northwest of Comber town centre, was formerly occupied by a large grain store built between 1860 and 1863. The building was constructed of random sandstone rubble with a slated gabled roof and measured approximately 26.5 metres by 11 metres in plan.

The six-storey structure was built by the local milling firm of John Andrews & Sons. The plans were adapted by William Glenny Andrews from a similar building recently erected by James Macauley at the Inver mills in Larne. The building cost £1,750 to complete and was constructed without a contractor. The store featured ten small openings on each of its six floors to the southwest façade, comprising mainly windows with three doorways at ground level; the northeast façade had a similar arrangement. The southeast gable contained doorways and a fire escape stair. A single-storey lean-to was attached to the northwest gable, and there were brick chimney stacks to each gable with skylights on the southwest side of the roof.

The Andrews' corn mills in Comber ceased production in 1883. The subsequent use of the building is unclear, though it appears to have been used as a bonded warehouse by the owners of the Comber distilleries in the early twentieth century and housed US troops during the Second World War. After 1945 it was converted to a piggery and then to an indoor poultry farm in the 1960s. The building was abandoned by the mid-1970s, set alight by vandals in August 1978, and demolished shortly thereafter. The site is now occupied by leisure centre playing fields.