Carnbane House, 264 Hillsborough Rd, Carnbane, Lisburn, County Down, BT27 5RJ

Symmetrical three-bay two-storey with attic rendered house, built c.1820, on an elevated site on the west side of Hillsborough Road. T-shape on plan facing east with lower two-storey return and farmyard to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles and pair of rebuilt redbrick chimneystacks with concrete coping and terracotta pots. Plastic rainwater goods to front elevation and return, cast-iron to rear to overhanging eaves. Painted rough-cast rendered walling to front and north side elevations, smooth cement render to rear and south side elevations. Stepped square-headed window openings with painted masonry sills and timber sash windows. Front east elevation three windows wide with central shallow breakfront beneath single eaves. Tripartite window openings with lower sidelights having 2/2 horizontally-glazed timber sash windows having fixed-pane sidelights and exposed sash boxes. Elliptical-headed door opening to the central breakfront containing timber doorcase and comprising; timber door with six flat panels flanked by pair of plain sidelights and slender panelled pilasters supporting stepped lintel cornice and plain glazed fanlight above. Door opens onto concrete platform. Gabled south side elevation has a pair of diminutive square-headed window openings to the attic level with replacement timber casement windows. Rear elevation abutted by lower two-storey return to the north end. Replacement uPVC windows to the rear and to return with a single tripartite window opening to ground floor, as per front elevation. M-profile natural slate roof to return with uPVC glazed French doors and a lean-to accretion to the re-entrant angle. North gable has a single window opening to the first floor and a pair of diminutive windows at attic level, as per above. Replacement concrete block quadrant wall abutting the rear corner of north gable partly enclosing rear yard. Setting: Set on an elevated site on the west side of Hillsborough Road accessed via a long bitmac avenue enclosed by wrought-iron estate railings, splitting into two avenues, one to the front lawn also enclosed by railings and matching wrought-iron gates on cast-iron posts with the avenue continuing along the north side of the house giving access to a functioning farmyard. Roof Natural slate RWG Plastic / cast-iron Walling Rough-cast / cement render Windows Tripartite timber sash / uPVC