Broommount, 53 Soldierstown Road, Aghalee, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT67 0AT

Broommount is a symmetrical detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse with attic, dating to the seventeenth century, rendered in flint-dash. A gable-ended return and further two-storey redbrick return were added around 1880. The building is set back on the south side of Soldierstown Road, accessed by a long winding avenue through the front field with many mature trees. The avenue splits as it approaches the house, one branch leading south to a large concrete-paved farmyard and the other to the front elevation. The building is L-shaped on plan with a large farmyard to the southwest and a small range of outbuildings to the southeast.

The main northern elevation has a steeply pitched natural slate roof with lead ridges and cement coping to slightly raised gables, each surmounted by a large rendered chimney stack. Replacement aluminium guttering runs across the front, with cast-iron guttering to the remainder of the building. The walling is flint-dash rendered with a smooth rendered plinth and eaves course. Rusticated render quoins and a smooth render sill band mark the first floor. The front elevation is five windows wide, each with a square-headed opening and smooth rendered surrounds, painted masonry sills, and horizontally-glazed 2/2 timber sash windows. A square-headed door opening occupies the centre, fitted with a replacement timber doorcase having decorative leaded glazing and opening onto a front bitumac parking area.

The east gable has a single off-centre window opening to each level and a further opening at attic level with a uPVC window. The early return continues flush with this gable, featuring a single window opening to each floor; the ground floor window retains a 6/6 timber sash window with exposed sash box. This elevation is abutted by a tall rendered pier supporting a pair of wrought-iron gates to the southeast yard.

The rear elevation is abutted by the gable-ended return to the right and a lean-to accretion in the re-entrant angle. The exposed section of the rear elevation has two windows on each floor and a gabled dormer window to the rear pitch with a uPVC window. The return is further abutted by a lower two-storey addition of redbrick and stone laid in English garden wall bond, with partly rubblestone walling to the ground floor, a pitched natural slate roof, roll-moulded terracotta ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The east elevation of this return has a random arrangement of window openings with uPVC windows and a central Tudor-arched door opening with hood moulding and replacement hardwood doorcase. The west elevation of the return is abutted by a single-storey redbrick accretion surmounted by a lean-to timber-frame conservatory. The west gable is abutted by a single-storey lean-to with a uPVC window to the front and uPVC glazed door to the rear.

To the rear of the house is a small enclosed garden with a low boundary wall consisting of dashed render and random rubble. A gateway to the east gable, with flint-dashed rendered piers and wrought-iron gates, is abutted by a two-storey rendered outbuilding attached to a cluster of similar rendered outhouses with sheeted doors and natural slate roofs, forming a small yard to the east. Lining the west side of the large farmyard is a range of single and two-storey rendered outbuildings with redbrick bellcote, sheeted doors and windows, natural slate roofs, and the remains of an octagonal horse-training structure to the west. The avenue opens onto Soldierstown Road via a pair of flint-dash rendered piers and splayed walls. The building sits opposite the Holy Trinity Church of Ireland.