Kinallen Manse, 9 Tullinisky Road, Dromara, Banbridge, Co Down, BT25 2PJ

Kinallen Manse is a symmetrical three-bay two-storey-with-attic former manse built around 1859, located on the north side of Tullinisky Road west of Dromara in the townland of Tullinisky. It is a good example of a refined rural manse of the mid-Victorian period and reflects the development of Presbyterianism in the district as the new residence for the minister of First Dromara Presbyterian Church.

The building is rectangular on plan with a projecting porch and single-storey glazed canted bays to the front; a two-storey gabled return extends to the rear with a single-storey slated lean-to. The roof is hipped natural slate with blue and black angled ridge tiles, and rendered chimneystacks are positioned at the centre of the gable with tall clay pots. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods are fitted to projecting eaves. The walling is painted smooth render, horizontally lined to the ground floor with raised quoins and a contrasting plinth.

Windows are 6/6 timber-framed sliding sash in moulded surrounds with projecting painted masonry sills. Multi-paned windows to the canted bays have continuous sills. The principal elevation faces east and is five windows wide to the first floor. At the centre of the ground floor is a projecting porch (added in the late 19th century) flanked by canted Edwardian bay windows with sills at floor level. The porch opens to the south with a six-panelled timber door having a brass door knob and cast-iron lion-head knocker. The east elevation has two windows and a single window to the right cheek. The south elevation has two windows to both ground and first floors, though the first-floor window to the right is a dummy. The west rear elevation is abutted to the right by the two-storey return which catslides to the right. The left bay has a window at first-floor centre and is abutted at ground floor by a modern conservatory. The return has a window to first-floor left and is abutted at ground floor by the slated lean-to extension; the south elevation of the return (flush with the main block) has a 3/6 gabled dormer at first floor and two 3/3 windows at ground floor. The north elevation has two windows to both first and ground floors.

The house is set on a large mature site north of Tullinisky Road on the fringes of Kinallen Village. It is positioned to the northwest of the site with a lawned front and south-facing garden, with a long tarmac driveway from the southeast entrance. A tarmac yard to the rear is enclosed by roughcast rendered walling and accessed to the northeast via modern gates. A two-storey rendered former coach house stands to the west with a hipped slate roof, louvered vents, and timber-sheeted door to openings at first floor; the ground floor has timber-sheeted carriage doors and a window. Cast-iron latch gates with arrow-head railings are located to the northwest and southeast of the yard. Modern housing development on neighbouring land to the east is partially screened by mature trees.

The building first appeared on the second edition of the Ordnance Survey map in 1859. It was constructed at a cost of £600 during the ministry of the Reverend William Craig. The congregation of First Dromara Presbyterian had previously leased residences, initially acquiring Marybrook farm in 1795 for £300. The manse was leased from Mr William Henry Waugh and was initially valued at £18 10s in Griffith's Valuation of 1861. Over the following seven decades, seven ministers of First Dromara resided at Kinallen Manse. The longest-serving occupant was the Reverend William George Glasgow, who lived there from 1896 to 1918. The 1901 Census recorded Glasgow (aged 32) residing at the manse with his wife Margaret (aged 29) and their infant daughter; the census building return described it as a first-class dwelling consisting of 13 rooms with a stable, two cow houses, and a barn amongst its outbuildings. Glasgow remained until his death in 1918, after which the Reverend Franklin Sidney King Jamison occupied the property until his death in 1942. The porch was added in the late 19th century and is visible on the third edition of the Ordnance Survey map of 1903. The valuation remained unchanged in the Annual Revisions until they ended in 1928. The manse continued to serve as the minister's residence for First Dromara Presbyterian until it was sold in July 1989, when a new manse opened in 1990. The building was listed in 1977 and has been used as a private dwelling since its sale in 1989. A modern conservatory has been added to the rear of the house in recent years. Much historic fabric and original detailing survive, including the centred chimneystacks and original fenestration.