Lagan Valley Hospital, South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust, 39 Hillsborough Road, Lisburn, Co. Antrim, BT28 1JPP

Symmetrical multi-bay two-storey with attic-storey stone former workhouse, built c.1840, with a pair of breakfront three-storey gabled blocks to either end. Converted to a district hospital in 1920. Set back from Hillsborough Road to the east, on a north-south axis, with a central rear spine wing attached to a further block running on a north-south axis, forming an H-plan. Extensively renovated, altered and extended throughout the twentieth-century with 1960s multi-storey hospital building to the north. Pitched natural slate roofs, black clay ridge tiles, dormer windows to the central section and some redbrick chimneystacks. Replacement moulded iron guttering to timber eaves and square-profile iron downpipes, exposed rafter feet to side elevations. Rough-hewn squared basalt walling with chamfered stone plinth course and tooled ashlar quoins (now painted). Square-headed window openings formed in redbrick (now painted) with red sandstone sills and replacement aluminium windows. West front elevation, thirteen windows wide with a breakfront three-storey double-gabled block to either end, two windows wide. Three windows grouped to the centre to form a central section with three dormer windows to the roof. The central section has a central segmental-arched door opening formed in redbrick with bowtel moulding and terracotta hood moulding with decorative label stops. Replacement timber panelled and glazed doors with sidelights and overlights. Abutting the gabled end blocks is a further segmental-headed door opening formed in painted redbrick with replacement hardwood panelled doors and (possibly original) sidelights and tripartite overlight. North side elevation is three windows wide with no windows to the second floor and a central door opening. Rear elevation generally rendered and abutted by series of gabled and flat-roofed extensions obscuring the original scheme. Abutting the rear is a central single-storey stone spine wing projecting at a right angle, detailed as per front elevation. Rear spine wing terminated by a further two-storey stone wing abutted by a further two-storey redbrick wing. An original 2/2 timber sash window to the two-storey stone block and round-arched former carriage arch opening to its southernmost bay. The south elevation to the single-storey spine wing is abutted by a lean-to extension with rendered walling. South side elevation as per north side elevation. Setting: Set on a H-plan facing west on the east side of Hillsborough Road. Front area given over to car parking with bitmac drive encircling entire building with several later temporary and modern structures. Former Fever Hospital to the east, detailed as per principal building now in use as a day nursery. Roof Natural slate RWG Replacement moulded iron Walling Squared rough hewn basalt Windows Replacement aluminium