Former rectory, 20 Church Road, Kilmore, Crossgar, Co Down, BT30 9HR

Large two-storey former rectory house built c.1790, substantially extended to the front in 1864 and again in 1993 when a full-height gabled entrance bay was added, along with single-storey hipped-roof offshoots to the east. The building now possesses an irregular, sprawling form, with the Georgian simplicity of the original dwelling largely hidden beneath the eclectic extensions.

The house is located at the end of a short drive to the south of Church Road, roughly a mile south-west of Crossgar. The asymmetrical front elevation faces roughly north. At roughly the centre of the elevation is a large full-height gabled bay added in 1993, which projects from the right and side of a broader hipped-roof bay added in 1864 that covers slightly over half of the original front facade. The only exposed section of the original front facade remains to the right of the elevation. To the ground floor of the full-height entrance bay is a large reproduction Georgian-style door screen with a panelled timber door, a large semicircular fanlight with tracery and sidelights also with tracery, accessed via a short flight of steps. The first floor of the bay has a sash window with Georgian panes, a pattern repeated throughout the house. To the left of the bay (on the 1864 section) is a single window to both floors. To the right (on the original facade) are two windows to both floors with two more at semi-basement level. The east elevation displays even greater complexity. To the left and centre is the large two-and-a-half-storey gable of the original section. To the ground floor, a recent single-storey offshoot added in 1993 comprises an octagonal hipped-roof summer-house-like section with semicircular-headed Georgian-paned sash windows to five faces, linked to the gable via a further hipped-roof conservatory with sash windows matching the main house. To the right is a full-height canted bay (the east face of the 1864 front bay), and further right is the east face of the 1993 entrance bay. The main gable of the original section has a window to the right of the ground floor (immediately right of the conservatory), another to the right of the first floor, and two smaller windows at attic level. The canted bay has a window to each face on both floors. The entrance bay has a window to each floor of its east face.

The west elevation has the large west face of the entrance bay to the left, with two windows to ground floor and three to first floor, and to the right the west gable of the original house with a window at semi-basement level and two small attic windows. A late Victorian-looking water pump stands to the right of the semi-basement window. The rear elevation is exposed to semi-basement level to the left. At semi-basement level is a small lean-to section with timber-sheeted door to the west face and a squat four-pane window to the south face. Directly above are two windows, then a single window to first floor and a single attic window set in a gabled half-dormer. At the centre of the rear elevation is the original full-height hipped-roof stairwell projection with a timber-sheeted door and fanlight with gabled projecting hood at low ground-floor level. Directly above is a tall window with a slightly shorter one above. To the right of the stairwell projection is a tall lean-to projection, apparently dating from 1993 in its present form, with a group of three windows to its south face, the centre window having a semicircular head set within a small gable. Directly above the lean-to is a single first-floor window with an attic window beyond. To the east the lean-to is abutted by the conservatory section. The facade is finished in unpainted lined render with roughcast to the rear. A small date panel reading '1864' appears on the gable of the entrance bay, taken from the front of the bay to which this bay was added. The entrance bay gable has crow-stepped eaves and the 1864 front bay has dentilled eaves. All roof sections are slated. Three large rendered chimney stacks are present. Cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted throughout. Two-storey rubble-built outbuildings stand to the south-west.

The house is shown on Ordnance Survey maps and recorded in the 1836 valuation returns. At that stage it consisted of the main two-and-a-half-storey gabled section with the stairwell projection to the rear, and was described in the 1836 Ordnance Survey Memoirs as 'in every respect characteristic of a glebe house'. The compilers of the valuation returns regarded the house as of reasonable age at that stage, probably late 18th century. It is likely to have been built at the same time as the original Church of Ireland Kilmore parish church, circa 1790. The building remained in its original form until 1864, when the then incumbent, Reverend John Mussen, was forced to add the large two-section bay to the front to accommodate the demands of his very large family, apparently numbering thirteen children. The building was sold by the church into private hands in 1993, when the new owner added the large gabled entrance bay and eastern offshoots.