3 Parkmount, Belsize Road, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT27 4AN

3 Parkmount is a three-storey Victorian mid-terrace townhouse built around 1900, situated on Belsize Road north of Lisburn town centre, directly adjacent to Wallace Park. The building forms part of a small group of four terraced houses of notably higher quality and detailing than most Victorian terraces of the period. As a group, they possess considerable group value and the setting amongst mature trees and open green space significantly enhances their character.

The house is of square plan form with a large two-storey rectangular rear return. The natural slate hipped roof features leaded hips and crested clay ridge tiles. A large stucco cavetto cornice at eaves level, painted white, is fitted with cast-iron ogee moulded guttering painted pale green to the front elevation and semi-circular cast-iron to the rear. Box section uPVC downpipes are shared with the adjoining owner. A large double-width brick chimney stack shared with the neighbouring property rises over the ridge line with twelve clay pots.

The walling is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with a projecting brick plinth; the rear return changes to English Garden Wall bond. Windows throughout are single-glazed timber 1/1 sliding sash with horns, painted white, featuring large rectangular sandstone cills. Window openings are spanned by 1½ brick flat arches with brick keystones and moulded cornice details above. The timber door, painted pale green, displays four bolection moulded raised-and-pointed panels with a rectangular fixed light above, flanked by plain pilasters. The door surround is decorated with egg-and-dart moulding at cornice level, rising to large foliated console brackets that support a cornice; the surround is painted red.

The principal south-facing elevation is asymmetrically arranged. The front door is located in the right-hand bay and accessed by two stone steps. To the left stands a two-storey canted bay with a shallow pitched leaded roof, decorated with a terracotta string course and decorative panels at first-floor level, and a terracotta eaves course with corbel brick above. A single window sits directly above the door, with two equally spaced windows at second-floor level. The first-floor windows feature projected brick detailing beneath their cills, whilst the heads of the second-floor windows are embedded into the large cornice detail at eaves level. The left elevation is party walled with the adjoining building 2 Parkmount.

The rear elevation is asymmetrically arranged with a large hipped two-storey return projecting northwards from the left-hand bay, overlooking a long narrow yard. Ground and first-floor windows are single openings; the second floor contains two uniformly arranged diminished windows with reduced detailing. All window frames are painted pale green. The rear chimney, which also serves the adjoining property, is located to the left over the ridge line and has been reduced in height. Cast-iron rainwater goods including octagonal hopper heads and a tall cast-iron SVP painted pale green extend high above eaves level. A metal-framed rooflight is located to the left of the chimney stack. A further single-storey lean-to garage with metal-framed rooflight projects northwards, accessed by timber doors with a modern canopy over the entrance. A brick wall encloses the yard, with an additional small lean-to coal bunker to the right, shared with the adjoining property. The right elevation is party walled with the adjoining building 4 Parkmount.

The building directly overlooks the large mature trees and open green space of adjacent Wallace Park and the Lisburn cricket ground. The small front garden lies beyond a vehicular access located directly in front of the terrace. Modern dwellings are located beyond the rear vehicular access.

Parkmount Terrace first appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey maps of 1901-02, shown as a simple oblong row with no apparent returns, suggesting the terrace may have been incomplete or still under construction at the time of printing. The Annual Revisions of 1901-11 record all buildings as vacant in 1902, indicating they had either just been completed or were nearly complete. The landlord was Hugh G Larmor, who also occupied Montreagh, a larger earlier house located on the same plot, suggesting the terrace was developed on land to the rear of his own residence.

Number 3 was first occupied by Reverend J B Brown, who remained as tenant until 1914, when the house was recorded as vacant. During this period the property value dropped from £28 to £26 in 1911. Jessie Campbell became tenant in 1915, followed by John A Cooke from 1921. A revaluation to £31 occurred in 1922. The last recorded occupier in the Annual Revisions was Fred MacIlwaine from 1929.

The external fabric of the building has been largely unaltered. The listing extends to the house, steps and yard walling.