41 Railway Street / 2 Bachelor's Walk, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 1XP

Symmetrical three-storey with attic over basement rendered former hotel, built in 1848. Rectangular on plan facing east on a corner site with a matching decorative gabled north elevation fronting onto Bachelor's Walk and a two-storey rendered rear extension built c.1980. Pitched natural slate roof with two large rendered profiled chimneystacks to either end and two gabled dormer windows to front and rear pitches having single-pane timber sash windows, decorative front panels and exposed rafter feet. Moulded cast-iron guttering to a dentilated render eaves cornice and cast-iron downpipes. Painted rendered walling with render plinth course. Square-headed window openings with painted masonry sills and single-pane timber sash windows. Symmetrical three-storey east front elevation is three windows wide with a pair of three-sided oriel windows to the first floor. Oriels comprise a flat roof with paired arched window openings having single-pane timber sash windows, flanked by slender pilasters on continuous sill course and supporting a dentiled cornice above. Replacement panelled aprons below the sill and supported on oversized scrolled brackets framing the ground floor window openings below. Square-headed window opening to thecentre bay of the first floor flanked by slender pilasters and supporting a dentiled cornice with single-pane timber sash window. Central square-headed door opening with modern sheeted hardwood surround and original cornice above. Blank south gable with a single modern square-headed window opening at first floor level. Rear elevation abutted by modern two-storey extension with two gabled dormers to the roof, as per front pitch and dentiled eaves cornice below. North gabled elevation has pair of oriel windows to the first floor, detailed as per front elevation with a central round-headed former door opening. Former door opening is flanked by two pairs of squat columns with stiff-leaf capitals on raised plinth blocks supporting foliate console brackets and dentilated lintel cornice with foliate panels to the spandrels below. Now serving as a fixed pane window opening. Setting: Street-fronted on a corner site opposite Lisburn Railway Station (HB19/13/003) with matching east and north elevations fronting onto Railway Street and Bachelor's Walk. Two-storey rendered extension abutting rear elevation fronting onto Bachelor's Walk, built c.1980 with three modern oriel windows. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Render Windows Timber sash