2-4 Lower Ballinderry Road, Upper Ballinderry, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 2EP

A three-storey seven-bay early nineteenth century former grain store and warehouse built before 1832, located at the junction of Lower Ballinderry Road and North Street, Lower Ballinderry. The building is rectangular-on-plan, originally comprising four separate structures, now converted for commercial use functioning as two units.

The pitched natural slate roof has raised concrete verges and seven rendered brick chimneystacks with no pots. A slightly lower roof pitch on two bays at the west indicates construction around 1840. Rainwater goods at the west are half-round cast iron; replacement aluminium is fitted at the east.

The walling varies: the south elevation displays exposed random rubble stonework at the west and roughcast render at the east, with exposed stonework at the west suggesting possible addition of first and second floors around 1840. The east gable is roughcast rendered, while the west gable and south elevation are exposed rubble stonework with evidence of lime render.

The principal elevation faces south and is sixteen openings wide, clearly divided into four distinct sections that were originally separate buildings, each with slightly different fenestration and architectural features. From the west: a three-and-a-half-storey two-bay block built before 1832 and raised around 1840 contains a painted timber multi-panelled door off-centre to the right, flanked by a blocked-up opening. Four square-headed vertically divided timber casement windows on the first, second and attic floors are each set within recessed segmental headed openings with brick voussoirs. The next section, four windows wide, comprises a square-headed double-leaf timber-sheeted door in a cambered opening off-centre to the right, contained within a partially built-up segmental carriage arch with brick voussoirs, flanked by irregularly spaced square-headed twelve-pane timber casement windows in recessed segmental headed openings with brick voussoirs. Four similar windows appear at first and second floor level; original signage and light are positioned at the centre at first floor. The different window heights indicate this is an earlier building than the western section. The next two bays are rendered and contain a central square-headed timber-sheeted door flanked by a single window on each side, with three equally spaced windows at first and second floor. The end two bays at the east comprise a timber-sheeted door at ground floor flanked by two 8/8 timber sliding sash windows with exposed boxes to the right and a single window to the left; four 6/6 timber sliding sash windows with exposed boxes appear at first and second floor. An entrance is surmounted by a cast-metal hanging signage panel. A chamfered south-west corner at ground and first floor contains an entrance door surmounted by an 8/8 timber-sheeted window with exposed box at first floor.

The west gable is abutted at ground floor by a lean-to extension with corrugated metal sheeted roof and at its right by a smooth rendered boundary wall with segmental terracotta coping and square brick piers, enclosing the rear yard. The rear elevation is in poor condition with most windows removed and boarded; lime render is partially removed and many original openings have been altered. The building is abutted at its centre by a double-height corrugated metal warehouse used for storage. The east gable contains two 8/8 timber sliding sash windows with exposed boxes at ground floor and is adjoined at the north by a stepped boundary wall containing an elliptical arched vehicular entrance with painted stepped quoins and voussoirs. The rendered boundary wall extends northwards and comprises exposed random rubble walling with three segmental arched openings.

The building stands on a road-front location to the north side of Lower Ballinderry Road, with boundary walls at the south and east enclosing a large site. A series of single-storey north-south aligned outbuildings at the north have pitched natural slate roofs, exposed rubble stonework and timber-sheeted doors, currently used as workshops. The north elevation is abutted by single- and two-storey modern warehouse extensions of little interest.