Beechmount Farm, 81 Plantation Road, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT27 5PH

Beechmount Farm is a detached three-bay two-storey symmetrical late-Victorian house built around 1880, situated on a substantial site south of Plantation Road, Lisburn, with associated outbuildings. The building is rectangular on plan with a two-storey return and two small two-storey extensions to the rear; a flat-roof extension and garage abut the two-storey return.

The roof is pitched natural slate with blue and black angled ridge tiles. Chimneystacks are painted render with terracotta pots. Timber bargeboards flank the gables, though the finials have been lost. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods are mounted on corbelled eaves. The walling is painted smooth render on a plinth.

The principal northwest elevation is symmetrically arranged with two-storey canted bays to either side of a central entrance bay. Windows are segmental-headed 1/1 timber-framed sliding sash with horns and projecting masonry sills. Above the entrance are paired first-floor windows, accessed via four bull-nosed stone steps. The entrance comprises a four-panelled timber door with decorative cast-iron door furniture, flanked by side-lights with a horizontal glazing bar on a moulded panel. Four fluted jambs on plinths with capital heads are surmounted by a plain entablature and cornice.

The northeast elevation features two diminutive round-headed windows to the attic level, with windows to the first and ground floors positioned right and left. The southeast (rear) elevation is abutted to the right by the two-storey return; the centre has two small two-storey extensions (the left is lower), and to the far left is a first-floor window. The return has a timber-sheeted door at attic level to the left and is abutted at ground-floor level by the flat-roof extension and garage. Its northeast elevation has two 2/2 wall-head dormer windows to the attic and two 2/2 windows at ground and first-floor levels. The southwest elevation of the return has two windows at ground and first-floor levels.

The right extension contains a round-headed leaded-and-stained glass window at first-floor level and a 2/2 window to the ground floor. The left extension has replacement windows at ground and first-floor levels. The southwest elevation has two diminutive round-headed windows to the attic, with windows at first and ground floors to the right and left.

To the rear is a slated painted rubble stone stable-block and two-storey barn arranged around a yard, enclosed to the south by a masonry wall with hedgerow. The barn to the east has corbelled eaves, timber bargeboards, and dressed quoins. Four windows under the eaves to the first floor have projecting masonry sills; ground-floor openings are in segmental-headed brick surrounds. From left to right is a timber-sheeted door and window, a large square-headed carriage entrance with timber-sheeted doors on a roller, and a window to the far right. The north gable has a timber-sheeted door at first-floor level; the south gable has a set of large timber-sheeted doors accessed via a rubble stone ramp. The stable-block to the west comprises three adjoining blocks with various roof levels. Those to the north are earlier; the block to the south has elongated openings at attic level under the eaves. All have timber-sheeted half-doors.

The setting is substantial and mature, overlooking farmland on all sides and accessed via a long tree-lined tarmacadamed driveway. The front is lawned and enclosed by a mature hedgerow with a wrought-iron farm gate. At the entrance are eight masonry steps enclosed by a parapet wall surmounted by cast-iron lamps. To the west is a paddock enclosed by a high timber fence. Large agricultural sheds occupy the rear of the site.