‘Lisbarnett House’ Public House, [?]181-183 Killinchy Road, Lisbarnet, [near Killinchy], Co Down, BT23 6AA

Lisbarnett House is a public house situated on the west side of Killinchy Road, approximately three miles north-west of Killinchy village in County Down. The building presents a late Victorian facade that probably represents a remodelling of an earlier public house documented on the Ordnance Survey map of 1834, when it was in the possession of James Kelly. The roof may have been raised during the late 19th-century remodelling, though the building possibly retains some fabric from the pre-1834 structure.

The pub is a long, two-storey building with a rendered facade on the front elevation. The ground floor contains a left-of-centre pub entrance with timber double doors flanked by tapering pilasters. To the left of the doorway is a sash window with vertical margin panes and a simple surround with keystone, protected by a grille. To the right of the pub entrance is a three-light window with similar pilasters rising from the cill and grille. Above the entrance and window is a timber signboard with cornice. To the right of this window is a doorway leading to a restaurant section, consisting of a partly glazed recent double door with sidelights and pilasters rising into a segmental arch moulding. Further right are two additional sash windows matching the left-hand window.

The first floor is dominated by three gabled half-dormers with decorative barges and finials. Each dormer contains a semicircular arch-headed window with modern frames. The north gable features a sash window on the first floor matching the ground floor pattern but without a moulded keystone; the ground floor window of this elevation only resembles a sash window. The south gable is blank.

The main structure is finished in lined render with chamfered quoins to the front and north gable. It has an eaves course, and the roof is gabled, covered in Bangor blue slates with four yellow brick chimneys and yellow clay parapets. Cast iron and PVC rainwater goods are present.

The rear of the building has been substantially altered and extended. Two extensions of various periods dominate this elevation: a flat-roofed section to the right and a lean-to to the centre and left, both featuring recent-looking openings. A flat-roofed corridor or "catwalk" extends from the left-hand lean-to, cutting into its roof and the main building's roof, linking to a separate rear building containing a flat. Above the lean-to section are two small PVC windows, and above the flat-roofed extension is a recent glazed door set within a gabled half-dormer. A recent-looking wall stands to the front of the property.

The interior has been renovated on successive occasions in recent times, with work carried out by local architect Julian Leith, son of the late Raymond Leith. The extensions to the rear and other alterations have diminished the building's character. The current use remains as a public house.