Gillbrook, 1 Mullaghcarton Road, Magheragall, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 2TB

Symmetrical detached three-bay two-storey with attic stone and brick house, built c.1850. Rectangular on plan facing north with single-storey T-plan wing attached to the west gable. Set on a corner site to the south of Mullaghcarton Road with the east gable fronting onto Cross Lane. Pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded terracotta ridge tiles, redbrick chimneystacks rising from either gable end and cast-iron guttering on iron brackets to redbrick eaves course and cast-iron downpipes. Squared uncoursed rubblestone walling with squared quoins and redbrick surrounds to all openings. Square-headed window openings with rendered reveals, painted masonry sills and replacement 6/6 timber sash windows. Symmetrical north front elevation is five windows wide with central square-headed door opening comprising; moulded stepped architrave surround on plinth blocks and flat-panelled timber door with rectangular overlight. Door opens onto footpath to front garden. East side elevation has a single window opening to the first floor and two diminutive window openings to the attic, all having uPVC windows. Redbrick chimney flues result in equal stone/brick ratio to walling. Rubblestone boundary wall encloses gable from Cross Lane. South rear elevation is three windows wide, abutted by lean-to glazed conservatory and having three flat-roofed dormer insertions to the rear pitch. Replacement tripartite timber sash window to the ground floor and uPVC to the remainder including dormers. West side elevation is abutted by single-storey wing with a door opening to the ground floor and two attic windows, as above. The L-plan former outbuilding has pitched natural slate roof, rubblestone walling and square-headed window openings with replacement timber sash windows to the connecting north section, steel casement windows to the west section and replacement timber sheeted doors opening onto the gravel rear access lane. Setting: Facing north on a corner site at a rural crossroads the site is enclosed by tall rubblestone wall to the east with iron sheeted gates on tall stone piers opening onto Cross Lane. To the north low rubblestone wall with stone coping enclosing front garden, opening onto Mullaghcarton Road via pedestrian iron gate on brick piers, to the west a vehicular opening with modern steel gates and gravel drive runs along the west elevation of the attached wing. House located north of a stone railway bridge crossing Cross Lane. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Squared uncoursed rubble Windows Replacement timber sash