Roses Lane Ends Former Post Office, 43 Crumlin Road, Ballinderry Upper, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 2JX

Detached corner-sited two-storey lime rendered former post office, built c.1830. Rectangular on plan facing south with single-bay two-storey rendered accretion abutting east gable and located on the north side of Crumlin Road. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, two redbrick chimneystacks, redbrick parged verges and plastic rainwater goods. Rough-cast lime render over rubblestone walling. Boarded-up square-headed window and door openings with redbrick linings, timber lintels, concrete sills. Remnants of multi-pane timber sash windows to rear elevation. Front elevation has randomly-placed window openings with a pair of door openings. Enclosed front area at a lower level to the road enclosed by rendered wall with stone coping. To the west end of the wall is a cast-iron wall-mounted post-box with raised lettering; 'E R II' and royal insignia. Blank lime rendered west gable with redbrick chimneystack. North rear elevation has randomly-placed square-headed window openings, now blocked up with concrete blocks, having multi-pane timber sash windows to the first floor, timber casement to the ground floor and a blocked up square-headed door opening. East gable abutted by two-storey bay having natural slate roof and lime rendered walling with a square-headed loading bay to each floor having sheeted timber doors. Setting: Set on a crossroads with the front elevation fronting onto Crumlin Road and the east gable fronting onto Lough Road. Forming part of a collection of commercial nineteenth-century buildings, now disused. Roof Natural slate RWG Plastic Walling Lime render over rubblestone Windows Timber sash