Millbrook Lodge Hotel, 5 Drumaness Road, Ballymaglave south, Ballynahinch, Co Down, BT24 8LS

Millbrook Lodge Hotel is a substantial two-storey rectory house of largely pre-1834 construction, now greatly extended and forming part of a modern sprawling two-storey hotel complex. The building stands on a rise at the end of a sweeping drive to the west of Drumaness Road, less than a mile south-east of Ballynahinch.

The original rectory house occupies the eastern side of the complex. It was probably originally entered on the north façade, though the doorway to this oldest section now lies on the east façade, which is asymmetrical. To the right of centre on the ground floor is a timber-panelled door with sidelights featuring lead tracery and panelled pilaster jambs, topped with a large segmental fanlight with radial or spider-web tracery. To the left of the door are two large sash windows with Georgian panes (6/6), their sills quite close to ground level. The first floor has three similar but smaller windows (6/3) aligned directly above the ground floor openings. The north façade, which may have originally been the front, is symmetrical. The ground floor has four sash-framed windows with panes matching those on the east façade, except the far right which has a modern frame; sills are again very close to ground level. The first floor has four smaller windows with modern frames designed to resemble the original sashes. To the far right, a very large modern flat-roofed two-storey extension, roughly twice as long as the original north elevation, has obliterated the original east façade. The south (rear) elevation of the original house appears to have been in three bays: two gabled bays to the left and centre, and a hipped-roof bay to the right projecting further than the rest. A large modern single-storey extension now abuts the ground floors of the left and centre bays. The first floor of the left bay contains a sash window as on the ground floor front, now covered by a fine grille. The central bay's first floor has two modern-framed windows. The right bay has a French door on the ground floor and a sash window on the first floor matching the east façade. The original house section is finished in painted render with in and out quoins, with a slated hipped roof and three rendered chimney stacks.

The remainder of the building to the west and south-west is entirely modern, dating from circa 1965 onwards, increasing the property's footprint by about four times its original size. The new section is thoroughly modern in appearance with flat roofs and large windows, though some reference to the original building appears in simulated Georgian panes and radial fanlights on the north façade. The drive to the east has an ornate gate screen with wrought-iron gates and railings, square piers with ball pinnacles, all appearing relatively recent (circa 1990).

The original section was built as the rectory for Magheradroll Church of Ireland parish. Parts may date to the 18th century; a glebe house is shown on this site on William Byers's map of circa 1790, and a substantial residence is indicated in this general area on Taylor's and Skinner's map of 1777. The Ordnance Survey map of 1834 shows what appears to be the north wing with a return to the south-west. Near-contemporary valuation records grade the property 'A-', suggesting it was either built in the previous thirty years or had been an older house completely renovated. The 1837 Ordnance Survey Memoirs describe it as "a neat plain 2-storey house". By at least 1858 the return to the east had been added. The property remained a rectory until sometime in the mid-twentieth century (circa 1950s). At some point after this (circa late 1960s) it was greatly extended and converted to a hotel.