1 Manor Drive, Lisburn, Co. Antrim, BT28 1JH

Detached three-bay single-storey with attic-storey sandstone Tudor Gothic former gate lodge, built c.1865. Rectangular on plan, facing north with gabled entrance porch and yellow brick rear extension, built c.1970. Set within its own grounds on a corner site facing onto Manor Drive to the north and its east side elevation facing onto Hillsborough Road. Pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles, lead valleys and tapered timber finials to all gables. Replacement sandstone-clad chimneystack with octagonal clay pot and replacement metal rainwater goods. Decorative foliate timber bargeboards and drop finials to all gables and sheeted eaves. Uncoursed squared tooled sandstone walling with sandstone ashlar plinth course and clasping piers to all three gables. Yellow brick walling laid in stretcher bond to the rear extension. Square-headed window openings with chamfered sandstone ashlar surrounds, sills and hood mouldings, fenestrated in gothic arch timber casement windows. Symmetrical three-bay single-storey front elevation with central projecting entrance gable having decorative bargeboard and painted carved armorial plaque stating.. “Viet Virtute” above front entrance. Slender window openings to either cheek of the entrance porch with single timber casement window to each. Square-headed door opening with chamfered sandstone ashlar surround and hood moulding with replacement timber panelled door opening onto front step and short footpath. East side elevation comprises original single-bay gable with bipartite window to the attic level and tripartite window to the ground floor with bargeboard as above. The rear extension is recessed behind the east gable with a single square-headed window opening and a wall-headed dormer, both having concrete sills and timber casement windows, with decorative bargeboard to the dormer. The rear south elevation of the extension has a decorative foliate bargeboard as per the original gables with a diminutive window opening to the attic level and a tripartite window opening to the grounds floor. The west side elevation to the original building is detailed as per the east gable with the extension to the rear having a catslide roof to a rear entrance porch. The extension has a wall-head dormer and ground floor window as per the east elevation with a further stairhall square-headed window opening with an original bipartite pointed-arched timber casement window (possibly salvaged from the original rear elevation). The porch has a square-headed door opening with hardwood glazed and panelled door. Hexagonal concrete paving encircles building with bitmac parking area to the west enclosed by concrete wall. Hedging encloses front area to Manor Drive. East elevation enclosed to Hillsborough Road by rubble stone wall with stacked coping. Roof Natural slate Walling Uncoursed squared tooled sandstone / yellow brick Windows Gothic arch timber casement RWG Replacement metal