22 Pond Park Road, Lisburn, BT28 3LF

A fine two-storey villa set in the suburban northern outskirts of Lisburn, constructed in 1903/4 in the Italianate Palazzo style characteristic of the late Victorian era, though it represents an anachronism of that design tradition into the Edwardian period. The building sits within a large, well-tended suburban garden, where the removal of boundary enclosures creates more of a parkland setting than a traditional garden plot.

The plan is roughly square with a rectangular two-storey projection to the east side. At the rear stand a single-storey flat-roofed extension, an enclosed yard, and a detached two-storey coach house or stable. The windows are generally 1/1 timber sash, with transoms raised above the middle position, a practice common in Edwardian times. All windows are currently boarded over, with frames visible only from the interior.

The front façade is symmetrical. A somewhat crude later brick planter and concrete flagged steps with a modern tubular steel handrail rise to the front entrance. The timber fielded-panelled door sits within a timber glazed screen and is set within an elliptical-headed opening flanked by engaged pilasters that rest on a panelled base and are surmounted by fluted console brackets supporting a projecting cornice. A balustraded parapet rests upon this cornice. The entire door case is set on a shallow advancing two-storey bay. To either side is a single-storey flat-roofed canted bay with flat-headed window openings resting on a continuous sill course; reveals have stopped chamfers. Cast-iron ogee gutters rest on projecting dentals.

First-floor window openings are arranged singly and in pairs, all semi-circular headed with moulded arch reveals and keystones. Reveals are stopped-chamfered, and in paired arrangements, mullions are engaged pilasters with 'garland' capitals.

The west façade has a single-storey bay as on the front. A window opening to the right of the ground floor has a moulded surround surmounted by a moulded cornice on decorative dentals. First-floor windows are semi-circular headed with a pair to the right side and a single to the left.

The rear north section is much obscured by the flat-roofed extension. First-floor windows are semi-circular headed with a pair to the right side and a single to the left. At the centre stands a large metal fire escape stair.

The east façade has a window opening to the right of the ground floor with a moulded surround surmounted by a moulded cornice on decorative dentals. To the first floor is a semi-circular headed pair of openings to the right side and a square-headed landing window opening to the left. The projecting two-storey bay to the right side has plain, flat-headed window openings.

Walls are finished with plain render and have moulded and chamfered quoins at most corners. They rest on a chamfered plinth with string and sill courses to ground and first floors; a further string course appears at first-floor level at the impost level of the window arches. The centre of the hipped roof is flat and carries decorative cast-iron cresting. Rendered chimneystacks have moulded caps and decorative clay pots. Projecting eaves have cast-iron gutters supported on dental brackets.