14 Church Road, Ballynahinch, Co Down, BT24 8LP

14 Church Road, Ballynahinch, is a mid to late Victorian house built circa 1880 as a manse for the 1st Ballynahinch Presbyterian Church, where it continues to be used. The building has lost numerous original features and possesses no special architectural or historic interest.

The house is a two-storey rendered structure with a symmetrical three-bay front elevation facing south-west. The roof is hipped with Bangor blue slates laid in regular courses, finished with plain red ridge tiles to the hips and ornamented red tiles to the main ridge. Two chimneys are smooth cement rendered and painted, with moulded projecting plinths, cornices, and stub pots.

The walls are smooth cement rendered, lined and blocked, with rusticated quoins at the extremities. A moulded projecting plinth runs around the building, with projecting eaves course and moulded cornice. Guttering appears to be moulded PVC with PVC downpipes.

The entrance front comprises three bays on the first floor, each with modern rectangular PVC fixed lights with top-hung upper panes set in projecting moulded surrounds with projecting cills. The ground floor features a single-storey canted bay on each side of the central entrance, each bay containing one window in three faces. These bays have moulded cast iron gutters; the right-hand bay has small cast iron downpipes while the left has PVC downpipes. Each bay roof is hipped with shaped Bangor blue slates in regular courses. The main entrance is a modern rectangular timber panelled door with plain fanlight, set in a pilastered doorcase with panelled bases to pilasters, scrolling brackets, panelled blocking stones, and dentil cornice. A concrete step leads to the entrance.

The north-west elevation mirrors the entrance front in roof, walling, gutter and window treatment, with two windows to each floor. The rear (north-east) elevation has the same roof and walling, though the plinth is unadorned. A large central two-storey rear return with flat roof, painted timber fascia and modern metal trim sits centrally. The main rear wall has two windows on each side of this return, all modern PVC fixed lights and opening casements set in plain reveals with projecting concrete cills. One modern rectangular panelled timber door with modern brass handle sits to the right in plain reveals. The rear return walls are plastered, lined and blocked with plain projecting plinth and PVC rainwater goods, with modern PVC windows in plain reveals. The south-east elevation is similar to the north-west, with two windows as two-pane PVC fixed lights and another as a four-pane unit with three fixed panes and one bottom opening light.

The building stands in elevated grounds set back from a main road, accessed by a tarmac driveway that winds upward to a tarmac area at the entrance front. The front boundary is formed by a stone retaining wall. The main entrance gateway comprises a painted plastered moulded screen wall, now lacking original railings and piers. Grounds are laid with grassy banks, lawns, shrubs and mature trees, with hedges forming side boundaries. To the rear stands a single-storey outbuilding with asbestos slated roof, roughcast rendered walls, large rectangular timber fixed light windows, and ledged timber doors.