Saint Owen's Rectory

Detached three-bay two-storey former rectory, built c.1870, having flat roofed projecting porch to centre of front façade (south). Two-storey extension to the rear (north). Now in use as a private house. Hipped natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with square-headed openings having cut stone sills and replacement windows. Round-headed door opening to west face of porch having cut stone block-and-start surround with a spoke fanlight over. Replacement timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds, now in use as a golf course, to the south of Ballymore. Main entrance to the southwest.

A well-proportioned mid nineteenth-century building, which retains its original character despite recent alterations resulting in the loss of some important early fabric to the openings. This building retains a good quality cut stone doorcase, which enlivens the front façade and is of artistic merit. This building is of particular interest for its original use as a Church of Ireland rectory and it appears to have replaced an earlier rectory on site, which was located a short distance to the east of the present building. The doorcase may have been moved from this earlier building to its present structure. Lewis (1837) records that this earlier rectory was built in 1813 using a gift of £450 and a loan of £50 from The Board of First Fruits.