3 Glenmore Terrace, Mill Street, Hilden, Lisburn, Co.Antrim, BT27 4RW

3 Glenmore Terrace is a Grade B1 listed building, a terraced two-bay two-storey redbrick house dating from around 1860. It stands on the north side of Mill Street in Hilden, Lisburn, County Antrim, set slightly back from the road with an enclosed front garden.

The house forms part of a terrace of five similar properties, built to accommodate overseers at the nearby Barbour Thread Mill and Glenmore Bleach Works. It is one of the few surviving examples of this style and holds significant group value with the other listed houses in the terrace.

The building is L-shaped on plan, incorporating a two-storey return and facing south. It features a pitched natural slate roof with a pair of wall-head dormers, round black clay ridge tiles and lead valleys. Redbrick chimneysstacks with clay pots rise through the roof, and deep overhanging eaves support replacement plastic rainwater goods. Decorative timber bargeboards adorn the front dormers, each topped with tall finials.

The redbrick walling is laid in Flemish bond with cement pointing. The two-bay front elevation displays ogee-arched and square-headed window openings. The wall-head dormers feature ogee-arched openings formed in polychromatic brick, each containing a replacement 3/3 timber sash window incorporating gothic tracery to the upper sash. The ground floor on the front originally had a landscape window opening, which was reversed around 1995 and replaced with a portrait square-headed window featuring a 6/6 timber sash. A square-headed door opening to the right contains a replacement panelled timber door with rectangular overlight, opening onto a tiled step and concrete paved footpath. The door frame has a plain painted masonry surround.

The front garden is enclosed by a low rubblestone wall with painted sandstone coping and redbrick piers topped with ogee-shaped painted sandstone capstones. An iron pedestrian gate provides access to the road. The house retains much of its original fabric, including the roof materials, front boundary wall, gate and timber sash windows.

The rear elevation is multi-bay rough-cast rendered, abutted by a narrow two-storey rendered return with a lean-to section to the rear gable. A single wall-head dormer mirrors the front elevation, with various square-headed window openings to the rear, some retaining original timber sash windows. The rear yard is enclosed by a tall rendered wall with a timber sheeted door opening onto five concrete steps leading to a common rear area and rear garden to the north.

The house is abutted to the west by No. 2 and to the east by No. 4 of the same terrace.

The terrace does not appear on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1858 but is documented in Griffith's Valuation of 1856–64, which dates its construction to circa 1860. The terrace is listed as five houses, four valued at £8.5s and the easternmost, being larger, valued at £11.10s. The occupier of this house is listed as Robert Edmundson in the valuation records, with William Edmundson resident by 1867.

The houses were leased from Richardson Sons and Owden, linen manufacturers, and were almost certainly intended as superior housing for overseers or foremen at the works, reflecting the concern shown by the Richardsons for the social and moral welfare of their workers. The Richardson family were among the oldest linen families in northern Ireland, settling in the region in the early seventeenth century and becoming Quakers. Jonathan Richardson (1756–1851) pioneered winter bleaching at Glenmore, enabling year-round operation of the works. His son James partnered with John Owden to establish J.N. Richardson, Sons & Owden, with Owden likely being the driving force behind the construction of Glenmore Terrace. The family extended their concern for workers' welfare to the provision of good-quality housing, evident in these well-built terraced dwellings.

The listing extends to the house, gate and walling.