19 Bridge Street, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 1XZ

A three-storey two-bay terraced commercial building with flats to upper floors, dating from the late eighteenth-century and located north of Bridge Street in Lisburn city centre. Rectangular on plan with single-storey gabled return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and tall rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods. Walling is painted smooth render. Windows are 6/6 timber-framed sliding sash to first floor, and 6/3 to second floor. Early shop front with replacement plate-glass window at ground floor. The principal elevation faces southwest and is four windows wide to upper floors. To ground floor is an early shop front to left of centre, comprising double-leaf single panel doors with transom light, flanked by panelled pilasters on plinths with carved lion-heads and scrolled capitals (also to far right); to right is a double plate-glass panel framed by a timber moulded “twisted rope" (also to transom light); surmounted by replacement timber fascia with modern painted lettering and a timber replica of the golden lion from the Lion Tea House on projecting timber plinth. To left of shop-front is a double-panelled timber-sheeted door in recess; to right of shop-front is a six raised-and-fielded panel timber door surmounted by a round-headed elongated transom light. The northwest elevation is abutted by adjoining building. The northeast (rear) elevation has a window to far left and right at second floor with a diminutive window to right of centre; a window to right at first floor; abutted by a gabled return with two windows. The southeast elevation is abutted by adjoining building. Setting: At the centre of Bridge Street, with Market Square to west, bounded to cemetery of Lisburn Cathedral at rear by cement rendered rubble stone wall. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Smooth render Windows: Mainly timber framed sash RWG: Cast-iron