Ardfoyle, 4 Forthill, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 3BB

A detached three-bay two-storey gabled red-brick house; built c.1920 and located in Fort Hill, north of Lisburn city centre. L-shaped main block with two two-storey returns to rear (that to west is longer with a hipped roof); modern conservatory to west and garage to north; two-storey canted bay windows to south and east; projecting stairwell window to west. Pitched and hipped natural slate roof with decorative terracotta ridge tiles and finials; decorative bargeboards and finials to gables; red-brick chimneystacks having sandstone plinths. Walling is English garden wall bonded red-brick on chamfered plinth with decorative brick course above ground floor windows and a sandstone string course between floors. Windows are mainly bipartite or tripartite 1/1 timber-framed sliding sash with horns and projecting sills, in segmental headed reveals surmounted by decorative sandstone keyblock. Canted bays with paired windows to central section and dentilled eaves. The principal elevation faces south; two openings wide to right with gablet over first floor window and single-storey slated open porch abutting a projecting gabled bay to left. Gabled bay contains two-storey canted bay window. Porch is partially glazed with decorative timber struts resting on a brick and sandstone plinth, accessed via three terrazzo steps. Entrance door has two raised-and-fielded panels, decorative carved panel below corbelled sill; side lights and segmental-headed transom light; brass door furniture. The west elevation has a modern timber conservatory to right; projecting stairwell bay to left. The north (rear) elevation is abutted by a hipped return at right and gabled return at left with a timber-sheeted door to centre. The hipped return has a window at ground floor at the gable; window at first floor at the east elevation; three windows to first floor and two windows to ground floor at the west elevation; to right is a half-panelled timber door with transom light. The gabled return has a window to first floor and is abutted to ground floor by a garage; east elevation has a bipartite window to first floor and a tripartite window to ground floor. The east elevation has two-storey canted bay window. Setting: Set on an elevated site in mature grounds with lawned and shrubbed garden to all sides enclosed by mature hedgerow and trees. Tarmacadamed driveway to south and east leads to two-storey slated red-brick garage and summer house. Summer house has half-panelled timber door and transom light with original timber-casement windows. Entrance comprises two tall red-brick square gate piers with sandstone caps, supporting replacement timber gates. The rear garden is bound to the north by redbrick walling with glazed terracotta copings that is contemporary with the house. Roof: Natural slate Walling: English garden wall bonded red-brick Windows: 1/1 timber-framed sash RWG: Cast-iron