Rossconor House, at 65 Annacloy Road, Rossconnor, Downpatrick, Co Down, BT30 9AQ

Rossconor House is a substantial two-storey Georgian gentleman's residence set at the end of a short lane approximately three miles north-west of Downpatrick. The building may have assumed its present double-pile form around 1800, though evidence suggests it was constructed in two stages, with the main gabled sections' walls not actually connected. The house is now largely derelict but retains special interest for its style, proportion, ornamentation, unaltered plan form, and designed setting.

The symmetrical south-west facing front façade features a six-panel timber door at ground floor centre, cased with Tuscan three-quarter column jambs set on thick stone plinths. The jambs carry entablature blocks above their capitals with roundel mouldings. The longer central entablature portion directly above the door is recessed with an oval flower-like moulding at its centre. A semicircular fanlight with petal-like tracery sits above, with a 'scooped' shell-like moulding to its archivolt, though the glazing is broken. Brick dressings surround the doorway arch. Two window openings with brick dressings flank the door on the left, with two similar openings to the right, now blocked. The first floor contains five further window openings, the central one set within a recess, most retaining remains of Georgian multi-paned sash frames.

The north-west façade is double-pile and rough-cast rendered with only a small square window at attic level on the left. The south-east façade, also rough-cast rendered, has a boarded-up window right of centre and a plain sheeted door at far right, with a small sash-framed window on the first floor to the right and a smaller frameless attic window directly above it. The rear façade is rough-cast rendered and features a frameless window on the first floor to the left, with a window at a slightly lower level (presumably at stair-landing height) at centre; the right-hand side is covered in greenery. The slated roof has rendered parapets and four rendered chimney stacks. Cast iron rainwater goods remain.

A large gabled outbuilding stands to the rear. To the south-east is a small single-storey dwelling, likely adapted from a former outbuilding. A large two-storey building in Georgian style was constructed off the approach lane in 2004, and a twentieth-century bungalow stands adjacent to the entrance to the access lane.

Documentary evidence shows Rossconor House on the 1834 Ordnance Survey map and recorded in contemporary Ordnance Survey Memoirs as "the residence of Captain Brown...a very plain substantial building with a small plantation". Valuation records of circa 1838 confirm the building had assumed its double-pile form by that date. The 1830s records indicate the plantation surrounding the house also included water-powered corn and flax mills, a coach house, and later a small gate lodge added to the main drive by 1863. The Brown family still occupied the property by 1863. By 1907, and possibly before, both the dwelling and mills passed to Mr McCorriston, who remained there until at least 1915. The house was last occupied in the early 1970s. The original gate house was replaced by a bungalow in the 1970s.