[1] In June 1798, a group of United Irishmen, led by Henro Munro, were exposed to a barrage of musketry and artillery fire outside the building in the Market Square in what became known as the Battle of Ballynahinch.

[2] In May 1935, the Ker family sold the building to William James McCoubrey, who was a local businessman and chairman of Down County Council.

In 1957, he replaced the cupola with a small pyramid-shaped spire and he subsequently infilled the openings at the front of the building with glazing.

[1] In January 2001, a group of local people, the Ballynahinch Regeneration Committee, acquired the building from the McCoubrey family.

An extensive programme of refurbishment works, which involved the removal of cement render from the front building, establishing regular openings with voussoirs on the ground floor and the restoration of the cupola in the original style, was completed in 2002.