12 Magheralave Park South, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 3NN

An asymmetrical two-storey multi-bay irregular plan form dwelling erected around 1940, located at the junction between Magheralave Park South and Magheralave Park North, off Magheralave Road, north of Lisburn city centre. The style and proportions display typical architectural characteristics of its period.

The building features a hipped natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles, overhanging eaves with timber fascia boards and soffits (partially roughcast rendered), and tall rendered plain chimneys with tall terracotta pots. Rainwater goods are cast iron with semi-circular gutters and circular downpipes. The walling is roughcast rendered.

The front elevation faces north and is asymmetrically arranged. The front entrance, an elliptical-arched timber sheeted door with wrought-iron decorative strap hinges and ironmongery, is located centrally to the curved north-east corner with a single first floor window directly above and a diminutive ground floor window to the left. The left hand side comprises a projected bay with symmetrically arranged corner windows to ground and first floor levels.

The east elevation is asymmetrically arranged, with a two-storey projected bay on the left featuring a ground floor door to the east face and first floor windows to north and south faces over a recessed ground floor with a single window. The right side has two first floor windows. A single-storey hipped roof garage with modern vehicular door and single window is located at the re-entrant to the projecting bay.

The rear elevation of the main block is symmetrically arranged with two segmental arched door openings centrally located on the ground floor, flanked by two corner windows, and uniformly arranged first floor windows directly above. An asymmetrical hipped roofed canopy, partially glazed and largely supported by columns, partially abuts the ground floor.

The west elevation is asymmetrically arranged, comprising a 1½ storey half-hipped abutment with cat-slide roof to the south face. The north face has a single large window opening to the ground floor; the south face is blank; the west face comprises two first floor windows and a ground floor window, abutted on the right by a single-storey hipped-roof extension with flat tile roof, featuring a door and window to the north face, a single window to the south face, and a blank west face.

Windows are uPVC replacement double glazed with rectangular masonry cills, representing inappropriate replacements that have detracted from the building's overall historic character.

The dwelling is set within secluded grounds, largely screened from public view by trees, and bounded to the north and west by a timber and masonry wall, with hedgerows to the east. Large gardens to the south contain a well-maintained lawn and mature trees. North of the house is a single-storey flat-roofed garage with flanking stepped retaining walls forming part of a landscaped entrance yard. The immediate surrounding area is principally suburban, comprising a variety of two-storey dwellings.

The house does not appear on historic map editions up to 1939. It is thought to have been built for a member of the Barbour family, former owners of the Barbour linen thread empire, which had branches worldwide and was at one time the world's largest linen thread producer, although no definitive evidence supports this attribution.

Whilst an interesting early twentieth-century suburban house, as it has lost its original doors and windows it is not considered to be of sufficient quality for listing.