Belvedere House, 226 Ballylesson Road, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT27 5TS

A two-storey, four-bay, Georgian country house built c.1790, rectangular plan form with extensive outbuildings attached. It is located off the Ballylesson Road, North of Drumbo Village. A hipped slate roof with clay ridge and hip tiles, with four chimney stacks located over either side elevation and over the hipped apex. Corbel course eaves with semi-circular cast-iron gutters and circular downpipes, throughout. The walling smooth render painted with projected plinth and quoins painted white. Georgian timber 6/6 sliding sash windows, with no horns, to ground floor with diminished 6/3 sliding sash to the first floor; plain reveals, stone cills, painted white. Timber door with six bolection moulded raised-and- fielded panels, with stucco moulded architraves. The principal elevation is east facing and is symmetrically arranged; centrally located Tuscan portico rising to an entablature, accessed by four stone steps. Two windows located to either side of the front entrance with four windows at first floor, directly over ground floor openings. The left elevation is abutted by a two-storey gable-ended double-pile historic extension c.1860, projecting northwards; lower eaves and ridge level. A further abutting modern single-storey pitched roof extension, adjoining adjacent single-storey outbuildings. On west face is modern single storey additional accommodation. The rear elevation is symmetrically arranged with centrally located two-storey canted bay, with leaded hips, flanked by single ground and first floor window openings to either side. Four modern roof lights uniformly arranged. The right elevation has three window openings to ground and first floor with a large four-flue chimney stack emanating just above eaves level rising above ridge level. Setting: The house sits at the crest of a hill at the end of a long sweeping driveway enriched by mature trees and vegetation. A large lawn to the rear and right, and a car parking area to the front. To the left, the adjoining outbuildings lie adjacent to further agricultural buildings with associated paddock. Roofing Natural slate Walling Smooth render Windows Georgian sash Rwg Cast-iron