Rademon Unitarian meeting house, Listooder Road, Rademan, Crossgar, Downpatrick, Co Down

Large, two storey, T-shaped, rubble-built, ‘vernacular classical’ Unitarian meeting house of 1787. The building is set on the E side of Listooder Road, roughly 2 miles W of Crossgar and is surrounded by a garaveyard. The asymmetrical front façade faces roughly SW. To the left of centre on the ground floor is the main entrance with consists of a timber sheeted door, with semicircular fanlight and painted stone Gibbs style surround. The fanlight has radial / spider-web tracery with leaf decoration. Directly above the doorway is a painted stone panel which reads ‘This house was built in the year of Our Lord 1787, which was the 21st year of the Revd Moses Nelson’s ministry in this place’. Moulded decoration above inscription. To the left of the doorway are three semicircular headed sash windows with Georgian gothic panes (18/6). To the right of the doorway are four similar windows. To the first floor are eight, much smaller fixed light windows, similar in style to ground floor (12 panes to each). To the NW and SE gables are stone steps each of which lead to a first floor doorway, (to galleries), with timber sheeted door. Each of these sets of steps has a recessed doorway to the ground floor. Small brick lean-to to rear of steps on NE gable The rear elevation has a centre full height gabled return with staircase to gable as previous gables. To the NW face of the return there are two window to the ground floor and two to the first floor, all corresponding to those to front. The SE face is blank. The rear façade of the main portion of the building (either side of the return), is blank except for a small flat arch window to the far right. The façade is in random fieldstone rubble. The gabled roof, at the time of this survey, was in the process of being re-slated, and only had slates to the front. Rendered parapets. Cast iron rw goods. Largely rough cast rendered wall to graveyard perimeter with simple wrought iron gates to front set between square, pyramidal-capped, pillars.