Store House, 3 Darachrean Road, Ballinderry Upper, Lisburn, Co Antrim, BT28 2LG

This site is situated on the south side of a minor road a short distance from Lough Neagh. The three buildings of note – two stores and a dwelling – are in a north/south aligned block along the west side of a farmyard. 1. Three-storey store This building is located at the north end of the block, nearest the road. Pitched natural slate roof, raised gable margins and brick chimney to each gable. Half-round metal gutters and down pipes. Walls of random rubble now rendered with cement. All openings have been infilled and rendered over except a replacement sliding timber door to the ground floor of the east elevation and two square openings on the top floor of the same elevation. Roof: Natural slate Rainwater goods: Metal Walls: Cement-rendered rubble masonry Windows: Infilled 2. Two-storey store This building is located in the middle of the block and is five openings wide. Pitched replacement corrugated metal roof with half-round metal gutters and down pipes. Cement-harled random rubble walls. Two/two timber sliding sash windows to ground floor of west elevation (possibly 20th century insertions). Infilled openings to ground floor and both floors of east elevation (internal access via three-storey store). Roof: Corrugated metal Rainwater goods: Metal Walls: Cement-rendered rubble masonry Windows: 2/2 sliding sash 3. House This three-storey former dwelling is located at the south end of the block and is aligned east/west. Pitched natural slate roof with decorative bargeboard to west gable. Half-round metal gutters and down pipes rebuilt brick chimneys on east gable and north eaves. Cement-harled walls. Openings infilled to ground floor. Replacement top-opening timber casement windows to upper floors, with sandstone and cement cills. Roof: Natural slate Rainwater goods: Metal Walls: Cement-rendered rubble masonry Windows: Top-opening timber casements The quay with which the store was formerly associated has been subsumed by a modern sand extraction processing plant. The level of the lough was also lower in the 1850s and is therefore much further from the store than was originally the case.