Glenada House, 29 South Promenade, Newcastle, County Down, BT33 0EX

Glenada House is a large, relatively plain two storey residence with a hipped roof, dating from around 1890 and built in Mourne granite. The building features projecting two storey and single storey bays. It stands on the coast just south of Newcastle town centre.

The original entrance was positioned on the north façade, but is now obscured by a substantial modern extension added in 1993. The east side of the north façade has a single storey flat roofed projecting bay with a single PVC window to its east face and three evenly spaced windows to its north face, the outer windows being slightly narrower. The first floor has three evenly spaced windows.

The front east façade is symmetrical and set on a small projecting and slightly battered base. A continuous projecting string course runs between the ground and first floors. The string course and dressed window surrounds are finished in honey coloured smooth granite, while the main wall face is finished in blue/grey rock faced granite. The centre features a two storey projecting chamfered bay with a single window to each face on each floor. Either side of the bay are two evenly spaced windows to both ground and first floors. All windows are modern top-hung PVC.

The south façade has three smaller and unevenly spaced windows at ground floor level. The first floor contains one large semicircular headed sash window with margins; the large panes are obscure glass while the margin panes are coloured glass with a stylised etched floral design. The main wall here is finished in roughcast render. The southwest corner features in/out quoins.

The south side of the west façade of the original building is visible but now sports modern and enlarged windows. The north and west sides are largely obscured by a large recent single and two storey extension, which shows little effort to blend with the original building.

The main roof is hipped, as is the roof to the projecting bay, with an overhang and boxed-in eaves. Two granite chimney stacks are set centrally on the ridge line. PVC rainwater goods are present.

The building probably dates from the mid 1890s and was likely built as a Methodist manse. Ordnance Survey maps of 1859 show a building marked 'Glenada Hotel' on the site, though a photograph of around 1890 indicates the site was unoccupied at that time, and Bassett's directory of 1886 makes no mention of the building. A building closely resembling the present original building appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1901, and a street directory of the same year records it as the residence of Rev. W. McWilliams, a local Methodist minister. The YWCA acquired the property sometime prior to 1910 and has retained ownership to the present. The building is now run as a temperance hotel and conference centre.