214 Hillhall Road, Ballymullan, Lisburn, County Down, BT27 5JQ

An asymmetrical three-bay two-storey vernacular house with outbuildings, built c.1800 and located south of the Hillhall Road near Lisburn. Rectangular on plan with two-storey roughcast rendered return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and four rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods. Walling is painted smooth render with chamfered plinth and quoins. Windows are original 2/2 timber-framed sliding sash with horizontal glazing bars, in moulded surrounds with masonry sills. The principal elevation faces northwest and is asymmetrically arranged being five openings wide. To centre at ground floor is a four-panelled timber door with transom light in architrave. The northeast gable has a 6/6 window to at first floor and a timber-sheeted door to left at ground floor. The southeast elevation has a 1/1 window to right at first floor and two windows to ground floor, each with small metal frame and glass surrounds. To right is the two-storey return; the northeast elevation has a window to first floor right and two timber-sheeted openings to first floor left. Ground floor has two 1/1 windows to right and a metal casement window and timber-sheeted door to left; southwest elevation has a 1/1 window over a small double-leaf half timber-sheeted door with brass knob, surrounded by metal frame conservatory; to left almost under eaves is a metal casement window. The southwest gable has a window to right at first floor. The adjoining outbuilding is slated roughcast render and faces a yard to northeast; large timber garage door to southeast gable; two metal-framed windows to southwest elevation; northeast elevation has two timber-sheeted doors to right. To northeast of the yard is a slated roughcast render linear range with various timber-framed window openings and timber-sheeted doors. To south is a small single-storey outbuilding with timber-sheeted door to right and window to left; to the rear of this is a rubble-stone ruin. I front of the outbuilding is a fine example of a cow tail cast iron water pump inscriped 'DUGAN PLUMBER LISBURN' Setting: Road-facing, set back from the road with low roughcast rendered wall surmounted by hedgerow, enclosing small garden; to centre is a cast-iron latch gate on round cast-iron piers with caps. Entrance at northeast to yard via square painted smooth render gate piers with pointed caps supporting decorative cast-iron gate. Enclosed garden to rear leads to small-holding with hen pen and piggery, overlooking unspoiled farmland to rear. Wrought-iron gates to rear of yard on square roughcast rendered gate piers with pointed caps. Roof: Pitched natural slate Walling: Smooth roughcast render Windows: Timber-framed sash RWG: Cast-iron