Annahilt Presbyterian Church, Windmill Road, Annahilt, Hillsborough, County Down, BT26

Annahilt Presbyterian Church is a free-standing double-height rendered church dated 1889, located on an elevated site to the south of Windmill Road at its junction with Beatties Road in Annahilt. The building is rectangular on plan and faces north, with a central raised and pedimented shallow breakfront as its dominant architectural feature. A single-storey extension was added to the rear around 1980.

The roof is pitched natural slate with hipped sections to either side of the raised central breakfront. Roll-moulded terracotta ridge tiles finish the main pitch, with synthetic tiles to the hips. Stone coping crowns the central pediment with weather-slating to its cheeks. Replacement metal box guttering runs along the timber fascia at eaves level, with metal downpipes.

The walls are painted rough-cast render over rubble and redbrick construction, with a projecting plinth course. Window openings are round-headed with leaded coloured glazing and exterior storm glazing, set on painted sandstone sills.

The two-storey front elevation features Neo-classical stucco detailing throughout. The raised central breakfront is surmounted by a full pediment with stucco entablature and raking cornice, containing a keystoned oculus. Soldier quoins flank the breakfront, becoming vertical panels above eaves level with stepped capitals rising to the pediment's entablature. Three tall round-headed window openings occupy the upper storey, each with a moulded archivolt rising from impost mouldings and a keystone, all set on a continuous sill course with three panelled aprons. A date plaque below the windows reads '1889'. The ground floor is dominated by a round-headed central doorway flanked by pairs of stucco pilasters with raised fluted plinth blocks and fluted capitals. The archivolt is moulded with a keystone. Double-leaf stop-chamfered panelled doors with lintel cornice and a fanlight containing leaded coloured glazing open onto concrete steps and a pair of concrete ramps accessing a cobble-lock forecourt with stainless steel guarding.

To either side of the breakfront are diminutive round-headed window openings with smooth render surrounds and render aprons, paired to the upper storey and repeated on both side elevations of the vestibule only.

The east nave elevation contains five window openings and is five windows wide, with the two-storey vestibule section to the right defined by smooth render pilasters. The west nave elevation mirrors this arrangement. Both elevations feature round-headed windows consistent with the front elevation.

The rear elevation is abutted by the single-storey extension, which has a hipped natural slate roof, plastic rainwater goods, and uPVC windows.

The church sits on an elevated site facing north, with a large cobble-lock forecourt to the northwest. The remainder of the site is occupied by the cemetery, containing upstanding stone and marble grave-markers dating from the late seventeenth century to the present. The cobble-lock forecourt opens onto the road via a pair of iron gates on iron piers, flanked by an S-curve low render wall with matching railings. Nearby structures include the Church Hall, built in 1977, and the Manse, built around 2008.