Lisnarran, 4 Greenpark Road, Rostrevor, Co.Down

Lisnarran is a mid-19th-century house in Elizabethan or Tudoresque style, located on Greenpark Road in Rostrevor, County Down. The building sits within a conservation area.

The site was undeveloped on the Ordnance Survey map of 1834 but the present structure appears on that of 1859. Construction likely occurred between 1840 and 1856, though the exact date remains uncertain. A valuation record of around 1861 describes it as a 'very new' house 'in the Elizabethan style and elegantly finished'. The main building measured 16 yards by 9 yards across two storeys. An adjoining basement kitchen measured 6 yards 1 foot by 10 feet, situated beneath a stable which itself measured 6 yards 1 foot by 10 feet by 2 storeys. The architect is not known.

At the time of the 1861 valuation, the property was leased by Mary Squires from Thomas Emerson, the local postmaster who managed the post office on nearby Mary Street. The lease had been granted for five years and was nearly expired at that point. By 1872, the property had acquired the name Lisnarran and was occupied by Major Moore. A letting advertisement from May 1872 records the house as containing two sitting rooms and six bedrooms with dressing rooms, fruit and pleasure gardens, a croquet ground to the rear and north, plus stabling and a coach house.

The property passed through several tenants over the following decades. John Francis Maxwell, a civil engineer born in County Limerick, occupied the house from 1898. The 1901 census records him aged 57, living with his wife Mary Matilda Maxwell, his sister Margaret Ann Maxwell, and two domestic servants. The building was classified as a first-class dwelling with 15 rooms in use. Subsequent occupants included Adeline F. Forde from 1905, Mary Constance Murray from 1909 (with Eleanor Gostling as joint tenant from 1923), Richard and Elizabeth Kennedy from 1937, Alexander Homes Hardy from 1939, Jean Hardy from 1945, and Philip G. Fay from 1963, who appears to have remained until at least 1972.

Before 1989 the property was converted to a nursing home. Rear grounds were subsequently developed for housing, with apartment blocks now adjoining the north and south sides of the building.