The Ballinderry War Memorial Hall, 10A North Street, Upper Ballinderry, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 2ER

A detached three-bay two-storey freestyle War Memorial hall; dated 1924 and located east of North Street, Ballinderry. T-shaped on plan with projecting porch to front. Hipped natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and timber bellcote on slated base. Roughcast chimneystacks over gabled flues. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods on overhanging timber-sheeted eaves. Walling is painted roughcast render with smooth rendered plinth and plat-band between floors. Windows are 8/8 timber-framed sliding sash to first floor and 12/12 to ground floor, all in smooth rendered painted reveals with masonry sills, unless otherwise stated. Principal elevation faces west and is symmetrically arranged. Ground floor is completely abutted by a single-storey lean-to vestibule comprising central entrance flanked by a diamond-lattice glazed window to either side. Entrance consists of a pair of double-leaf timber doors with multi-paned top panels, embraced by a neo-Baroque style segmental canopy supported on entasis columns with pilaster responds. An oval plaque above the door has painted letters: ‘THE BALLINDERRY WAR MEMORIAL HALL ERECTED 1924’. First floor has a pair of windows flanking a breakfront central bay with occulus, surmounted by a shallow pediment. The north elevation is four windows wide (left bay projects) with off-centre projecting gabled flue. To left is the rear wing having a window to ground and first floor; inner cheek to west has window at first floor and an original half-panelled timber door (glazing is boarded), in similar style to main entrance; with corbelled canopy over and accessed by brick and tiled step enclosed by masonry block. The rear (east) elevation has four 6/6 windows to first floor; ground floor has two windows flanked by a small timber casement window to left and a similar opening (boarded) to right. The south elevation is four windows wide (right bay projects) with off centre projecting gabled flue. To left is a sandstone inscribed plaque with painted lettering reading “FOUNDATION STONE LAID BY ALFRED SEFTON ESQ 5TH JULY 1924.” Inner cheek to west has window to first floor and replacement door with transom light and corbelled canopy to ground floor, accessed by brick and tiled step enclosed by masonry block. Setting: Situated in a largely residential area surrounded by mid and late twentieth-century housing. Set back from the road with curved walls to either side of main elevation, flanked by square piers with ball finial on plinths, and containing cast-iron gates leading to side gardens. To north is an undeveloped site. Enclosed to south and east by hedgerow and timber fence. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Roughcast render Windows: Timber-framed sash RWG: Cast-iron