Parochial House, 6 Market Street, Ballycastle, Co Antrim, BT54 6DP

This is a plain Victorian house located at 6 Market Street, Ballycastle, dating from around 1870. It was originally built as the residence for the minister of the former Methodist church that stood adjacent. The house occupies a prominent position overlooking Market Street and is accessed by a pedestrian pathway, with vehicular access from Moyle Road.

The two-storey house is three bays wide and features a hipped roof with central chimney stacks. The front elevation to Market Street is also three bays wide and includes a gabled, single-storey projecting porch with a single uPVC window. A door is located on the flanking wall of the porch. Single uPVC windows are positioned on either side of the porch, and three similar windows are located on the first floor above. The roof is natural slate with hips, a plain ridge tile, and two chimney stacks centred on the ridge, with a half-round gutter. The walls are smooth, rendered plaster with rusticated plaster quoins, which are painted. The east and west gables each have two windows at ground and first floor levels, positioned vertically above one another, and are of uPVC construction. A central, two-storey lean-to addition extends to the rear, with a single sliding sash two-pane window at both ground and first floor levels. A back door is located on a flanking wall.

The house was not depicted on the Ordnance Survey map of 1856 but became the residence of Catholic curates in 1925. Prior to this, it may have been occupied by the Cross and Passion nuns who arrived in Ballycastle in 1913. The entrance porch appears to have been added after 1970, and the windows have recently been replaced with uPVC. The building is located within the Town Parks townland and falls within a conservation area. It has historically functioned as a rectory or manse and currently retains that use, being owned by the Roman Catholic Church.