Streamville Lodge, 3 Moneybroom Road, Moneybroom, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 2QP

Streamville Lodge is a single-storey cottage with attic, built circa 1810 in the Georgian style. It is located mid-way along the west side of Moneybroom Road, between Ballinderry Road and Glenavy Road, in the townland of Moneybroom, County Antrim.

The building is L-shaped, comprising four bays on the principal elevation. The pitched roof is covered in natural slate with terracotta ridge tiles and finials. Yellow brick chimneystack with corbelled upper courses rise through the roof. Decorative timber bargeboards and cast-iron semi-circular gutters with circular downpipes detail the eaves. The walling is roughcast rendered with a projected smooth rendered plinth.

Windows throughout are timber casement frames with 12-pane Georgian-style design and stone cills. The principal south-facing elevation is asymmetrically arranged, with a gabled entrance bay located right of centre, flanked by small margin-paned windows in the cheeks. Two windows occupy the right side, three to the left. A modern roof light has been inserted to the right of the front entrance. The timber front door features solid bolection-moulded lower panels with margin-paned glazed upper sections, topped by a semi-circular fanlight with hood moulding and moulded head-stops.

The left gable is abutted by a single-bay gable-ended small extension with lower eaves and ridge level; this features a 9-paned fixed light to the gable face and a timber-sheeted door to the south elevation. The rear elevation is asymmetrically arranged with four windows across. A wide flat-roofed dormer dates to circa 1970 at attic level. A 1½-storey gable-ended return projects to the left-hand side, four windows deep. At ground floor level, a single-storey lean-to extension abuts the left cheek gable face, with two symmetrically arranged windows on the first floor. The right gable is symmetrically arranged with a single-storey canted bay centrally located at ground floor level and a single replacement window above.

The setting includes large mature well-maintained gardens to the front, bounded to the east by an English-bonded red-brick wall with a compound polychromatic pointed-arched gateway terminated with large round piers with corbelled upper courses. A courtyard to the rear has a modern surface finish and is enclosed to the north and west by historic single and double-height outbuildings with roughcast walling and slated roofs. Beyond the property boundary lies open rural landscape.

The building was originally thatched; the thatch was replaced with slate at an unknown date. The outbuildings have been well maintained. Modern agricultural buildings and stables are screened and do not significantly detract from the interest of the dwelling.

Historic Context

Streamville Lodge first appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1832, depicted as an oblong building with three outbuildings in the townland of Moneybroom. The three current outbuildings likely occupy the sites of the original structures; however, the eastern outbuilding was demolished between 1857 and 1901 and replaced with the current rear return, which first appears on the 1901 Ordnance Survey map.

The Townland Valuation of circa 1830 records that the house was occupied by Miss Sarah Patten, described as a 2b+ class single-storey dwelling measuring 54 feet by 17.6 feet. A large outbuilding, likely the western stable block, measured 29 feet by 19.6 feet. One office was used as a coach house. The entire site was valued at £9 3 shillings. Miss Patten was the daughter of the Reverend Francis Patten, incumbent of Magheragall Parish Church.

The Ordnance Survey Memoirs confirm that Streamville Lodge was the seat of Reverend Patten, who descended from the Knockmore Pattens, a respected family that had settled in the area shortly after the 1641 rebellion. The house was likely built before circa 1809, when a Mr. James Patten was recorded in a land conveyance as resident. The Ordnance Survey Memoirs described the house as 'a beautiful thatched cottage, 1-storey high' possessing 'farmyards and office houses in neat order'.

Between circa 1830 and 1859, the house passed to a Mr. James Patten, an unknown relation to the previous occupant. During this period, the property value increased to £18, possibly resulting from the construction of a large return to the western outbuilding, visible on the 1857 Ordnance Survey map but subsequently demolished. James Patten occupied the main dwelling and let out two smaller properties to lodgers, possibly converted from the former offices, valued at £1 and 15 shillings respectively, though these do not appear in the Annual Revisions which commenced in 1863.

Between 1868 and 1905, the property changed hands several times. In 1870, Joseph Richardson occupied and acquired ownership. Richardson let the house to John Graham Senior, who remained until 1879 when the property fell vacant. Subsequent occupants included William M. Crilly (1880), Alexander Steer (1885), Alexander Jackson (1886), and Mrs. Arlow (1888), who resided there until 1905 when C. J. Williamson took possession. In 1917, Henry Richardson, possibly a relation of Joseph Richardson, came into occupation. Richardson was the last occupant recorded in the Annual Revisions, which concluded in 1923. The house continues to be occupied.