20 Seymour Street, Lisburn, Co. Antrim, BT27 4XF

Mid-terrace four-bay three-storey redbrick former townhouse, built c.1830. Rectangular on plan facing north with three-storey single-bay stairhall projection to rear abutted by gable-ended three-storey return. Now vacant. Pitched gauged natural slate roof, black clay ridge tiles and redbrick chimneystack to either end abutted to those of adjoining buildings with octagonal clay pots. Ogee-moulded cast-iron guttering on iron drive-through brackets to eaves and round cast-iron downpipe. Redbrick walling laid in Flemish bond, painted rusticated quoins and plain rendered plinth course up to ground floor sill course. Gauged brick flat-arches to square-headed window openings, flush rendered reveals, painted masonry sills and original 6/6 timber sash windows with no horns and cylinder glass. Four-bay three-storey redbrick front elevation with uniform arrangement of window openings. Original timber shutters to ground floor windows with raised-and-fielded panels. Off-centre round-headed door opening formed in redbrick with timber panelled door having eight raised-and-fielded panels, flanked by pair of slender fluted engaged columns supporting lintel cornice and webbed fanlight above. Door opens directly onto street. East rendered gable rising above roof of adjoining building with some redbrick revealed and abutted by tall redbrick chimneystack. Painted rendered three-storey rear south elevation abutted by single-bay three-storey stairhall projection to the right with hipped natural slate roof and triple-height round-headed stairhall window opening having original 9/9 timber sash window with incorporated fanlight, resting on a stone sill with further multi-pane timber window below. Open-string timber staircase visible to interior with turned balusters, carved tread ends and polished handrail. Gable-ended three-storey return (possibly of later date) with redbrick chimneystack to blank gable and landscape window opening to the east cheek at each level with timber casement windows. Rendered west gable rises above adjoining house abutted by rendered chimneystack. Rear return abutted by rubblestone single-storey gable-ended outbuilding with pitched slate roof and steel casement windows. Rear rubblestone yard wall adjoining site no. 22 Seymour Street. Remainder of rear site, finished in gravel and used as car park. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Redbrick / render Windows Original timber sash