Lisbarnet Private Residential Home, Cuan View, 169 Killinchy Road, Lisbarnet, Killinchy, Co Down, BT23 5NE

Lisbarnet Private Residential Home is a large late Victorian house built around 1894, located on the west side of Killinchy Road approximately 3 miles northwest of Killinchy village in County Down. The building was originally constructed as a residence for a local doctor and has operated as a residential home since around 1990.

The house is a two and a half storey structure with a hipped roof and presents an elaborate front facade that appears somewhat overdeveloped for its semi-rural setting. The front elevation facing east is symmetrical, featuring two large full-height canted bays with hipped roofs topped with ball pinnacles. Between these bays is the central entrance doorway, which is framed with square pilasters and curved moulding that springs from the pilaster capitals and culminates in a keystone with ball pinnacle set within a tympanum. Above this arrangement is a large segmental arch fanlight with leaded lights serving the glazed upper panels of the panelled timber door. Directly above the entrance is a PVC window set within a segmental arch opening with label moulding. The canted bays each contain windows at ground and first floor levels with segmental arch heads, cill courses, and linked label moulding.

The facade is finished in roughcast with a chamfered plinth, chamfered quoins, and dentilled eaves. Courses and label moulding provide extensive decoration throughout.

The south-facing elevation contains two ground floor windows matching the style of those on the front, a first floor window to the left, and at attic level a central semicircular arched sash window with label moulding. The north gable follows a similar arrangement but lacks the ground floor window on the left side. Attached to the right edge of the north gable is a single storey lean-to section with a panelled door framed by a segmental arch fanlight with label moulding and a matching window to the right.

A high rendered wall with coping extends from the lean-to and encloses a rear yard containing former outbuildings that have been converted to offices and accommodation. A two storey gabled return is attached to the south side of the lean-to, featuring a semicircular arched PVC window to the first floor on the north side and similar windows on the south facade, along with a large modern window at ground floor level. The rear gable of this return contains two first floor PVC windows, with a single storey mono-pitched section attached to the ground floor.

The rear elevation of the main building contains two first floor windows flanking the return and another window to the ground floor right, all with segmental arch heads and PVC frames set on cill courses. The rear, gables, return, and converted outbuildings are finished in roughcast with chamfered quoins to the main house and a dentilled eaves course. The main roof is covered with Bangor blue slate and features two large rendered chimney stacks with corbelling, cast iron skylights, and decorative wrought iron gates and pillars to the front.

The building is recorded in the heritage register but is not listed as being of special architectural or historic interest.