Magheralave House, Magheralave Road, Thiepval Barracks, Lisburn, Co.Antrim, BT28 3NF

Detached multi-bay two-storey redbrick Jacobethan former house, built c.1880. Irregular on plan facing west with series of gabled projections and projecting entrance porch. Converted c.1938 for use as Officer's Mess, attached to 1950s wing to west via modern entrance porch with gabled wing to east attached to 1960s flat-roofed two-storey extensions to east and south. Set on a slightly elevated site to the east of Duncan's Road in the northern suburbs of Lisburn. Pitched natural slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles and several tall decorative redbrick chimneystacks set behind redbrick parapet walls and curvilinear gables with red sandstone coping and red sandstone pierced panels to the parapets. Original cast-iron and replacement metal downpipes. Continuous red sandstone cornice to base of parapet wall, further continuous projecting red sandstone course above first floor and redbrick walling laid in English garden wall bond with chamfered projecting plinth course. Square-headed window openings with stop-chamfered red sandstone surrounds, red sandstone sills and uPVC windows. West entrance elevation has a pair of full-height projecting bay windows to either end surmounted by curvilinear gables having blind loop-holes formed in red sandstone. Window openings are quatrepartite to the first floor and tripartite to the ground floor. The central recessed bay is abutted by a flat-roofed entrance porch formed entirely in red sandstone ashlar with a quatrefoil pierced parapet, deep moulded cornice and plain frieze supported by engaged corner piers having diamond-pointed rusticated blocks. A square-headed window opening to the front of the porch has lugged and kneed architrave surround while the south cheek is abutted by a decorative modern entrance porch (c.2000), while retaining the original double-leaf oak doors with raised and fielded panels and brass furniture. The north elevation has an off-centre two-storey gabled projection with paired window openings and a recessed three-storey bay to the east. The east elevation is surmounted by a pair of oversized brick chimneystacks rising from curvilinear gables with a random arrangement of window openings detailed as above. The north end is abutted by a single-storey L-plan redbrick wing also having a decorative curvilinear gable and window openings as per above. This elevation opens onto a small yard enclosed to the east by a flat-roofed two-storey redbrick wing, built c.1960. South elevation is five windows wide with an off-centre two-storey bay surmounted by curvilinear gable, abutted by a single-storey flat-roofed redbrick extension. Setting: Set on an elevated landscaped site to the east of Duncan's Road within Thiepval Barracks in the northern suburbs of Lisburn. Cobblelock pathways encircle the building with a bitmac forecourt to the front elevation and pair of twentieth-century blocks to the west. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron / plastic Walling Redbrick Windows UPVC