Ashfield, 106 Ballinderry Road, Upper Ballinderry, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 2NW

Ashfield is a symmetrical detached three-bay two-storey stone and brick house with attic, originally built around 1760, with 19th-century modifications and a polychromatic brick porch added around 1910. A single-bay two-storey rear return extends from the main block. The building is rectangular on plan, facing south, and sits at the end of a long lane on the north side of Ballinderry Road, crossing the Lisburn to Antrim railway line.

The house has a hipped natural slate roof with rolled lead ridges. A pair of symmetrically-placed yellow brick profiled chimneystacks with dog-tooth detail and clay pots sits on the roof. Cast-iron guttering with ogee moulding on iron brackets runs to the red brick eaves course, with cast-iron downpipes.

The walls are galleted rubblestone with brick linings to all openings. The square-headed window openings are formed in red brick (painted white) and contain original 6/6 timber sash windows with cylinder glass and painted masonry sills.

The symmetrical south front elevation is five windows wide, abutted by a central polychromatic brick entrance porch. The square-plan porch is built in yellow brick laid in Flemish bond with a black and red brick moulded plinth course, black and red brick course at impost level, and a moulded black brick continuous hood moulding. A window opening appears to the right cheek, a pair of window openings to the front, and a door opening to the left cheek, all segmental-headed with stop-chamfered reveals and black and red brick keystones. The windows are single-pane timber sash with coloured margin lights and ogee horns, sharing a masonry sill with decorative detail. A replacement timber panelled door with segmental-headed overlight opens onto a stone step. A polychromatic brick cornice sits below stone coping with a decorative cast-iron grille over it, surmounted by a timber-frame conservatory with hipped natural slate roof.

The west side elevation is two windows wide. A single square-plan bay window has a fixed-pane timber window and a diminutive hipped slate roof.

The rear elevation is abutted by an off-centre single-bay two-storey part-rendered return and a single-storey rubblestone former dairy to the east. Original 6/6 timber sash windows sit on the first floor; paired single-pane timber sash windows appear on the west bay at ground floor level. A segmental-headed red brick opening at the centre contains replacement paired 4/4 timber sash windows on a concrete sill. The return has horizontally-glazed 2/2 timber sash windows to the left cheek at first-floor level and a replacement timber glazed door to the right cheek opening into a sunken gravel rear yard.

The east side elevation is two windows wide.

A range of single and two-storey rubblestone outbuildings enclose an elevated yard to the rear. The two-storey north range has a windbreaker entrance porch with an early flush timber door. The single-storey range to the west has been re-roofed in natural slate with an original yellow brick chimneystack to the south gable matching those of the house. The outbuildings retain original timber casement and sash windows with red brick linings and sheeted doors.

The property is set within its own grounds at the end of a long lane. A landscaped front lawn with gravel front area leads along the west side elevation to the elevated rear farmyard. A bitumac driveway curves to the southwest with a pair of decorative cast-iron gates on rendered piers with pyramidal capstones. The front garden is enclosed by a rubblestone wall.