The Vicarage, Kilbroney Road, Rostrevor, Co.Down

The Vicarage at Kilbroney Road, Rostrevor, is a house built in 1820 as the vicarage for Kilbroney Church of Ireland parish. It was constructed by the Reverend Edward John Evans, who served as Vicar of Kilbroney from 1818 to 1860. The Board of First-Fruits contributed £450 towards the building's construction, with a further loan of £120, though the house remained incomplete as of January 1820.

In its original form, as shown on the 1834 Ordnance Survey map, the building comprised a main three-bay two-storey hip-roofed section with a porch to the front balanced by a bow to the rear, and small projections to the east and west sides. The 1835 valuation recorded the main block as measuring 50 feet by 23 feet by 20 feet high, with various returns and projections, a basement storey for servants' rooms, and two separate offices to the immediate west of the house. The Ordnance Survey Memoirs of 1836 described it as a "good 2-storey house pleasantly situated in a hollow among ash, sycamore, larch, beech and fir trees."

The 1861 valuation described the vicarage as a "neat little concern…very prettily situated," though noting that the view was limited and the upper storey low. Evidence suggests that the bow to the rear was raised to two storeys at some point after 1835, and that the side projections may have been reconfigured, though the plan remained essentially unchanged according to the 1860 map.

The building retained its basic 1820s form until at least 1930. A two-storey extension to the east end was added after 1952, replacing a smaller single-storey section that had previously stood there. This extension may have been built shortly after 1955, when the parish raised £1,000 for vicarage repairs. A single-storey projection to the front, presumably originally a garage, and a further extension to the west side were added between 1969 and 1979, likely in 1974, when the building was converted by the Dromore Diocese for use as a residential centre known as Kilbroney Centre. Since then, the western extension has been enlarged and additional freestanding structures have been built to the west.