The Court, 226 Hillhall Road, Lisburn, County Down, BT27 5JQ

A one-and-a-half-storey, three-bay symmetrical farmhouse with outbuildings, built c1790 and located on a large mature site south of the Hillhall Road, Lisburn. Rectangular on plan with one-and-a-half-storey return and single-storey extension to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with raised stone skews, terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks to gables. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods. Walling is pebbledash with smooth rendered plinth and quoins. Windows are 6/6 timber-framed sliding sash with horns, unless otherwise stated, in smooth rendered surrounds with projecting sills. The principal elevation faces north and is symmetrically arranged with two windows to either side of main entrance. Door has thirteen raised-and-fielded panels flanked by fluted pilasters and sidelights and surmounted by decorative fanlight; set into a smooth rendered surround with fluted pilasters and keyblock. Above entrance is a modern dormer window insertion. The east elevation has a timber-framed casement window to centre at attic level. The south elevation is abutted to centre by the one-and-a-half storey return; west elevation has dormer window to right and replacement timber-framed window at ground floor; east elevation has a dormer window to left; diminutive window to ground floor left and bipartite timber mullioned window to ground floor right; gable has two windows to attic and is abutted at ground floor by more modern single-storey extension. The west elevation has a timber-framed casement window to centre at attic level. Setting: Situated on a large, mature and relatively unspoiled, rural site, with a number of mature trees to east of the main house. Large garden to front enclosed by mature hedgerow and accessed via a timber latch-gate with early stone piers, from lane to west. Driveway is acccessed by pair of painted cast iron gates. The back wall of the house to west is adjoined to an early, almost full-height, roughcast rendered crenellated bawn wall (SMR ref: DOW015:001). This continues to form the back wall of a yard-facing single-storey roughcast and slated outbuilding, with adjoining one-and-a-half-storey barn to west. The barn has an early timber-sheeted half-door to centre; outbuilding has a double-leaf timber-sheeted door to centre flanked by two replacement windows. To far west the bawn wall continues, here it is rubble stone and incorporated into an enclosed garden. The original entrance, between the enclosed garden and the outbuilding, was once arched, but this has been removed and now comprises replacement metal gates. Gravelled driveway leads to rear of house with a series of modern agricultural sheds. To south of the house and accessed through a replacement timber farm-gate, is an early roughcast and slated outbuilding with raised skews, having early timber-sheeted door with window above to west elevation. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Pebble-dash Windows: 6/6 timber sliding sash RWG: Cast-iron