Spring Mount, 49 Creevy Road, Creevy, Lisburn, BT27 6UX

Spring Mount was a two-storey three-bay direct-entry vernacular farmhouse with origins predating 1830, situated at the crest of a hill at the end of private land accessed off Creevy Road, approximately 3.5 miles south-east of Lisburn. The building underwent substantial 19th and 20th century modifications before its demolition in 2013 for development of a modern dwelling.

The farmhouse displayed a linear plan form with single-storey additions to the rear and side. The pitched roof was covered in natural slate with clay ridge tiles and narrow skews, dressed with cast-iron rainwater goods. Chimneys were constructed of red brick rendered in rough-cast, with corbelled upper courses and terracotta pots. The principal south-east facing elevation was asymmetrically arranged and finished with flint and pebble dashing, while the gables and rear elevation were rough-cast rendered and white-washed. Narrow smooth rendered quoin banding articulated the corners.

The principal elevation featured 2/2 timber sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing bars and margin panes to the ground floor, with 1/2 matching sashes to the first floor, all with smooth render surrounds. The front porch, positioned left of centre, was a single-storey flat-roofed structure of smooth rendered construction with a bi-partite steel-framed stained glass window to its south-east face. A modern timber front door provided entrance. Single windows flanked the porch at ground level, with diminished first floor windows above and a centrally positioned replacement timber casement window over the porch itself.

The left gable was abutted by a single-storey smooth rendered and white-washed two-bay accommodation block with a pitched roof and steel-framed windows. Further extensions included a single-bay outbuilding with a shallow pitched corrugated-iron roof and an adjoining slate-roofed single-height outbuilding projecting south-easterly, partially finished in white-washed stone. The rear elevation comprised a cat-slide extension extending almost the full width, fitted with a 2/2 sliding sash window to the south-west face and a 1/1 sliding sash window to the north-west face. A boarded-up window was located at high level to the north-east face. A further lean-to extension to the north-west face appeared to have been erected in two phases: the left side, comprising a rear door and large steel-framed casement window, was smooth rendered with a corrugated-iron roof, while the right side, constructed of brick, featured a 1/1 timber sliding sash window to its north-west face beneath the same corrugated roof.

The farmhouse was set deep in rural surroundings, with the long private lane flanked by agricultural landscape. A stone well, later blocked up and possibly the origin of the property's name "Spring Mount", stood to the right of the front yard entrance. The remains of a small garden accessed through large gated piers lay to the front. To the north stood a small outbuilding pre-dating 1830, with further outbuildings and agricultural units to the west dating from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Historical records first document the property on the 1834 Ordnance Survey map, where it appears as a T-shaped building situated south of modern Creevy Road, accompanied by two outbuildings to the south-west and north-east. By the second edition (1859), a third outbuilding had been added to the south-east, and the rear lean-to extension was constructed at this time. Griffith's Valuation of 1861 records the site divided between Joseph Pettigrew, who occupied the main farmhouse and eastern outbuildings valued at £1 10s, and David Innis, who occupied the south-west outbuilding valued at £1. Innis sublet the western outbuilding as a pair of houses, each valued at £1. Both men let their properties from John Hunter.

By at least 1901, the entire site had come into possession of John Young, a 60-year-old Presbyterian farmer and widower. The 1901 Census records that Young occupied the farmhouse with his five children and worked the farm; the Census Building Return classified it as a 2nd class dwelling with six rooms and slate roof, with Young recorded as landholder of farm buildings including a stable, coach house, cow house and barn. The 1911 Census recorded no significant change to the site. Young's only son, Hugh David, had married and was widowed around 1910, with a son born to him in that year.

The property first appears named as "Spring Mount" on the fourth edition Ordnance Survey map of 1919–20, which also documents that the western outbuilding previously used as paired houses had been demolished by that date. John Young lived at Spring Mount until his death in May 1925 at age 85, leaving effects of £72 8s 6d to Hugh David and Samuel Young. Hugh David had remarried by his father's death, but his wife Grace died in December 1934, leaving £299 18s 2d to her twice-widowed husband. The 1976 Ordnance Survey map shows that a corrugated-iron agricultural shed to the north-west of the original farmhouse was constructed between 1920 and 1976.