Station House, 1 North Circular Road, Lisburn, Co Antrim, BT28 3AH

Station House is a detached two-storey, three-bay dwelling with two two-storey rear returns on its east elevation, situated below the corner of Magheralave Road and North Circular Road in Lisburn. The main section of the house is aligned north-south with its principal elevation facing west.

The building is constructed of red brick embellished with stepped yellow brick quoins. A purple brick platband runs around the north, east and south elevations of the main section at ground and first floor cill levels. The north elevation of the north-east return and south elevation of the south-east return also have an identical platband across their first floors. The pitched natural slate roofs feature fretted bargeboards and boxed eaves. Corbelled yellow-brick chimneys exist to each gable, although the one on the north-east return has been removed. Half-round metal and plastic rainwater goods are fitted throughout.

The principal west elevation includes a single-storey entrance porch to the middle, which appears to be a modern replacement although it retains a matching roof with plain bargeboard, walls and quoins. The porch has a door to the left check and a window with concrete cill to its right cheek. The ground floor of the left bay contains two windows with shallow segmental yellow brick heads and common painted stone cills. The bay to the right of the porch is canted at single-storey height with similarly detailed windows to each cant but with separate cills. Single windows occupy each first floor bay, except the middle one which has a semi-circular yellow-brick head. The south gable of the main section has two segmental-headed windows at first floor level, also with yellow brick heads and stone cills.

A modern boiler house is attached to the ground floor with a metal flue running up the quoin.

The south-east rear return is the same height as the main block but slightly inset from its gable. It has a pair of windows to its south elevation at ground floor level and two first floor windows on its east gable. The north-east rear return is slightly lower and shorter than the south-east return, with its north elevation continuous with the north gable of the main block. This elevation has two ground floor windows with flat red brick heads; the right-hand window with concrete cill is a modern insertion replacing a smaller original window or door. Two original windows exist at first floor level, all with flat red-brick heads. The north elevation of this return has a ground floor door (a modern insertion) to the left of which is an infilled original window opening with a yellow-brick head.

All windows and doors throughout are modern uPVC casements.

The back yard is partly bounded by a red-brick wall topped with hollow triangular terracotta copings and contains a modern single-storey brick and rendered concrete shed. The grounds are enclosed along their north and east sides by a random basalt wall topped with terracotta copings. Originally there were steps down to the back yard from the main road, but this entrance has been infilled with brick and the steps removed.

A side entrance along the North Circular Road features a wrought-iron gate set within an opening with dressed granite jambs and head, with a more recent vehicle entrance further along this road. A large garden extends west of the house, bounded to south and west by a hedge separating it from Lisburn Station.