31-35 Bridge Street, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 1XZ

A three-bay three-storey mid-terrace former house, now commercial premises with integrated square-headed archway; built c.1850 and located north of Bridge Street in Lisburn city centre. Rectangular on plan with full-height gabled return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles and brick chimneystacks having four terracotta pots; rendered chimneystack to gable of rear return. Walling is Flemish-bonded red brick with painted smooth render to ground floor to numbers 31-33; painted smooth render to number 35 and rear elevation. Windows are replacement 2/2 timber-framed sliding sash with horns (horizontally divided) to first floor and diminished 1/1 to first floor; all with brick flat arches and projecting sills. The principal elevation faces south and is five windows wide to upper floors (unequally spaced). Shop-front at ground floor left, integrated square-headed archway to right with modern cast-iron gates and cobbled yard. Shop-front comprises panelled and glazed timber door to centre, flanked by bipartite plate-glass windows to sill level at either side. Full-length fascia with modern applied lettering and cornice. Number 35 shop-front comprises tripartite plate-glass window at right; modern six-panelled timber door at left; all surmounted by corniced fascia. The west elevation is abutted by adjoining building. The north (rear) elevation is abutted at right by the full-height gabled return; to right is a window to upper floors and the square-headed archway. Return has a window to second floor and two to first floor at the gable; the east elevation has two asymmetrically arranged windows to second floor level; a window to first floor and two modern timber-sheeted door to ground floor. Number 35 (at left) has a raised ground level; two windows at first floor, a window at ground floor left and a modern door to ground floor right. The east elevation is abutted by adjoining building. Setting: Situated in the centre of Bridge Street, with Market Square to west; recessed to adjoining terrace to west. Through the cobbled yard to right are a set of masonry steps leading up to landscaped garden enclosed by an early rubble stone and brick wall to north, an English garden wall-bonded brick wall to west and a modern timber fence to east. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Flemish-bonded red brick Windows: Timber-framed sash RWG: Cast-iron