Ashmount Cottage, 134 Hillhall Road, Ballymullan, Lisburn, County Down, BT27 5JQ

Detached single-storey rendered house, built c.1830. Rectangular on plan facing north and located along the south side of Hillhall Road with a projecting front entrance porch and lean-to rear projection. Range of late nineteenth-century rendered outbuildings located to the west. Now empty and boarded up. Pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded terracotta ridge tiles and three redbrick chimneystacks, that to the west being profiled and rendered. Ogee-moulded cast-iron guttering to exposed rafter feet and cast-iron downpipes. Ruled and lined cement rendered walling with rusticated soldier quoins and raised render lettering to the front elevation stating: 'ASHMOUNT COTTAGE'. Square-headed window openings with architrave surrounds, painted masonry sills and single-pane timber sash windows. Front elevation is three windows wide and abutted by an off-centre gabled entrance porch with decorative timber bargeboard, rusticated soldier quoins. Round-headed window opening to the front and square-headed door opening to the west cheek with early twentieth-century timber panelled and glazed door. Small front garden enclosed to the road by hedging with an iron pedestrian gate to the road. East gable is blank with remnants of carved timber brackets to the eaves. Rear elevation is abutted by a lean-to redbrick projection having a timber sheeted door to the east cheek. West gable as per east. Setting: Set close to the road behind a hedgerow with a range of late nineteenth-century single-storey rendered outbuildings to the west having pitched natural slate or corrugated asbestos roofs, pebbledash rendered walls, timber casement windows and sheeted timber doors. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Ruled and lined cement render Windows Timber sash