Maymore House, 97 Comber Road, Moymore, Killyleagh, Co. Down, BT30 9PG

Maymore House is a substantial two storey farm house dating from circa 1840–1859, built in late Georgian style and situated to the east of Comber Road, roughly a mile north of Killyleagh in County Down.

The front (west) façade is symmetrical and constructed in coursed fieldstone (greywacke). The ground floor features a central main entrance with a nine-panel door encased with Doric columns, an elliptical arch fanlight with petal-like tracery, and narrow three-pane sidelights. Two sandstone steps lead to the doorway, now in poor order. Flanking the entrance are sash windows with Georgian panes (6 over 6), with similar but slightly smaller windows on the first floor. The stonework to the window openings is either painted or cleaned to give the appearance of dressings. The lower half of the façade is obscured by thick ivy growth.

The south gable features a window to the left on the ground floor matching those on the front façade, and two similar windows to the first floor. To the right on the ground floor, a former window has been converted to a doorway with narrow French doors, with the top sash of the former window now functioning as a large fanlight. This gable merges with the south face of a two storey gabled return (possibly dating from the later 19th century), which has a sash window to the ground floor and a much smaller four-pane fixed light window to the first floor.

The north gable has two sash windows to the first floor, with a high wall projecting from its right side, running flush with the front façade. A relatively recent single storey flat-roofed extension with two squat modern windows has been added to the north face of the return. The rear gable of the return has a large modern kitchen window to the ground floor and a small four-pane fixed light window to the first floor.

The rear façade of the main building features a timber-sheeted door to the right on the ground floor with modern window sidelights and fanlight. To the first floor right is a sash window. To the left is a window lighting the stairwell, set at a slightly lower level, with a sash frame incorporating stained glass.

The north and south gables, the return, and the rear façade are finished in unpainted roughcast, with the ground floor largely covered in thick ivy growth. The main roof is gabled and has been recently reconstructed with an unsuitable overhang to the gables with plain barges, covered in natural slate. The main gable chimneys have been rebuilt in red brick with concrete coping. The return roof repeats this style with a small recently rebuilt concrete chimney to the ridge.

To the north of the house is a large complex of one and two storey outbuildings, predominantly dating from the later 1800s, constructed in fieldstone rubble with red brick dressings to openings and gabled roofs with natural slate. These buildings, arranged around a courtyard, have been completely renovated in recent times, largely sympathetically. A large arched gateway in brick leading into the courtyard from the north-west was recently completely reconstructed.

Ordnance Survey maps of 1834 show buildings on this site, but none matches the style and positioning of the present house or most of the present outbuildings. Valuation records indicate that the 1834 buildings were occupied by Robert Harper and comprised a store, carhouse, barn, machine house, and cowhouse as well as a dwelling. The site remained in Harper family hands at the time of the second survey in 1861. By 1859, however, a building had been constructed at the site of the present house, marked on the 1859 Ordnance Survey map as Maymore House. The property thus appears to date from the mid-1800s, possibly prior to 1851, when Lord Dufferin referred to John Harper (who appears to have been his agent) as of Maymore in correspondence. The return may not be original and may date from the later 19th century. Most of the outbuildings appear to post-date 1859.