Laurel Hill, 17 Chapel Road, Ballinderry Upper, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 2JF

Detached three-bay single-storey with attic stone and brick house, built c.1835 with single-storey former thatched house perpendicular to rear, built c.1800. Rectangular on plan facing north set back on the south side of Chapel Road accessed via long tree-lined avenue and front lawn with several stone and sheeted iron outbuildings arranged around informal yard to the east. Half-hipped natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and pair of symmetrically-placed yellowbrick chimneystacks with octagonal clay pots. Replacement moulded aluminium guttering to boxed eaves and cast-iron downpipes. Galleted uncoursed blackstone walling with redbrick linings to all openings. Square-headed window openings formed in redbrick with original 6/6 timber sash windows and painted sandstone sills. Symmetrical front north elevation is four windows wide with a central square-headed door opening having original double-leaf flat-panelled timber door opening onto sandstone step with replacement timber trelliced canopy. Single-bay one and half storey rough cast rendered east side elevation has replacement timber bargeboard, replacement 3/6 timber sash window to the attic level and original 6/6 timber sash window to the ground level with smooth rendered decorative surrounds. The single-storey former thatch dwelling extends the east elevation southwards with decorative rendered surrounds, as above, uPVC windows and timber door. South rear elevation abutted by single-storey former thatched house to the east side. Exposed galleted stone walling with a central three-centred brick arch now filled with uPVC window. Single-bay one and half storey west side elevation has replacement 3/6 timber sash window to the upper level, original 6/6 to the ground floor, replacement decorative bargeboard and exposed stone walling. Setting: Set well back on the south side of Chapel Road on a slightly elevated site. Front and rear lawns to the west side of the house and large informal yard to the east with rough-cast rendered outbuildings having natural slate roofs and timber sash or steel casement windows. A double-height barn to the southeast has elaborate king-post trusses to the corrugated iron roof. A long straight bitmac avenue is set perpendicular to the road enclosed by mature trees and also enclosing a front garden with pair of swan-neck rendered walls and piers supporting wrought-iron gates to former front avenue. Roof Natural slate RWG Replacement aluminium / cast-iron Walling Galleted blackstone and redbrick Windows Timber sash