64 Stoneyford Road, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 3SR

64 Stoneyford Road, Lisburn

A detached single-storey rendered dwelling built around 1800, located on the north side of Stoneyford Road on the eastern approach to Stoneyford village. This vernacular structure retains its original facade composition and external elements, making it a relatively rare and valuable survivor in the village.

The building is rectangular on plan, facing south, and sits at a lower level than Stoneyford Road. It features a pitched corrugated iron roof with an iron ridge and redbrick chimneystack. Steel rainwater goods run to timber eaves. The walls are painted rendered work finished with ruled and lined detailing.

The south-facing front elevation is four windows wide. The eastern end has two window openings with 6/6 timber sash windows with exposed sash boxes, while the western end has two horizontally-glazed 2/2 timber sash windows. All window openings are square-headed with concrete sills. An off-centre flat-roofed entrance porch projects from the front elevation, featuring a square-headed door opening with a hardwood glazed door leading onto a concrete step to the road. The porch roof is concrete.

The west gable has a single window opening with a timber casement window. The east gable is blank. The rear elevation was not observed during inspection.

Remains of the original thatch roof survive beneath the current corrugated iron replacement. The building was listed in 1998. Due to the raising of Stoneyford Road over a number of years, the house has become prone to flooding, resulting in water damage and damp.

The property appears on the first Ordnance Survey map of 1832 as a small rectangular building just outside the village, though it does not appear in the Townland Valuations of around 1830, likely because it fell below the minimum £3 value threshold for recording. The second Ordnance Survey map of 1857 shows an addition to the site of either an extension or a similar-sized outbuilding. A small out office appears on that map, but by 1920 it had been removed.

Griffith's Valuation records the property at £2 5 shillings and notes that it was let by Mr John Wallace from the Marquis of Hertford. In 1884, his wife or daughter Mary Wallace came into possession of the house, and in 1895 she purchased it from Sir Richard Wallace, residing there until 1928. The 1901 Census records Mary Wallace as a Presbyterian farm worker aged 59. She was recorded as living with her daughter Sarah Jane Wallace, aged 27, and granddaughter Mary Wallace Anderson, aged 6. The house was classified as a second-class dwelling containing only three rooms, with a cow house and piggery as the only out offices. By 1911, Mary Wallace was recorded as a member of the Church of Ireland and lived with her daughter Sarah Jane Graham, her farmer husband Thomas Graham, and their two small children. The 1911 census shows that the piggery had been replaced with a fowl house. The current occupants claim that the house has been in their family for approximately 200 years.

The setting comprises the north side of Stoneyford Road, opening directly onto the road at a lower level. Various corrugated iron-roofed structures stand to the rear of the site, with a two-storey modern dwelling in the process of being constructed nearby.