[1] The building was commissioned as a private house: it was designed in the Georgian style, built in greywacke stone and was completed in around 1770.

[1] By the 1830s, the house was owned by a muslin merchant, Samuel Cochrane, who imported his goods through Donaghadee Harbour.

[4][5] The building was bought the Pritchard family for use as a boarding house in 1914 and was then acquired by Donaghadee Urban District Council in the mid-20th century.

[1] However, it fell vacant in the early 21st century, and, after its condition subsequently deteriorated, it was acquired by a developer, Michael Dunlop of Urban Property Solutions, in 2017.

[9] An extensive programme of works costing £1.9 million, which involved the removal of the cement render on the front of the building, the restoration of the stonework and the conversion of the interior into five private apartments, as well as the construction of four mews cottages in the courtyard behind, was completed in 2021.