5 Old Road, Upper Ballinderry, Lisburn, Co. Antrim, BT28 2NJ

A single storey thatched building originally lobby entry central hearth but now direct entry into a corridor. The house faces south-west overlooking a small forecourt and a hedge on the north east side of the road that leaves the Moira Road (Ballinderry) in a south easterly direction less that 200 yards from the Upper Ballinderry crossroads and just over three quarters of a mile along Old Road. The thatched covering is contained within concrete copings, each gable rises to a corbelled chimneystack and there is a similar feature above the position of the original kitchen hearth.The external wall finish is of dry dash above a cement base. The house is entered by means of a modern interpretation of a six panel raised and fielded door with a stained finish and with the two upper panels glazed.The entrance is flanked to the right (south east) by one and to the left by three twelve-pane windows that are horizontally pivoted. Sills are of traditional depths.The gables are now without openings. At the rear starting from the north east corner there is modern top hung window before coming to the pitched roof extension finished with natural slate. There are two top hung windows lighting the north east side of the extension, a similar window and a flush door glazed in the upper part on the opposite side. The gable is blank. Rainwater goods are of plastic. Beyond the extension to the south east there is a large modern window followed by a shallow natural slate lean-to extension containing a modern top hung window. A cast iron lever handle pump is set before this projection Window sills at the rear are of traditional depths.