74 Hilden View, Tullynacross Road, Lambeg, Lisburn, Co.Antrim, BT27 5SF

74 Hilden View is the right-hand house of a detached double-height single-storey former school, originally built in 1849. The building is constructed of random rubblestone walling with redbrick quoins and redbrick surrounds to all openings. It has a pitched natural slate roof with roll moulded black clay ridge tiles and steel roof lights, decorated with pierced timber bargeboards to the gable end and cast-iron guttering on iron brackets to exposed rafter feet on overhanging eaves.

The front east elevation features a gabled entrance porch set below eaves level at the right end, with a natural slate roof, a single arched latticed iron window to the gable, and a square-headed door opening to the south cheek formed in redbrick with a vertically-sheeted timber door. Two camber-arched windows are positioned to the left and one to the right, each with cast iron lattice lights. Camber-arched redbrick window openings throughout have painted masonry sills and original bipartite Tudor-arched latticed iron windows with original cylinder glass. The front roof has two conservation-type roof lights. The rear west elevation has a replacement hardwood tri-partite window to the left and a central opening recently enlarged to accommodate double-leaf hardwood glazed doors. The gabled north elevation has a central rectangular opening with a tripartite Tudor window, the top lights having clear glazing and the bottom lights cast iron lattice pattern. The rear roof has three conservation-type roof lights.

The building sits on an elevated rectangular site facing east on the west side of Tullynacross Road. The front elevation is enclosed to Tullynacross Road by a dry stone wall and shared wrought-iron gates, while the rear and north side elevations have embankments to the lower level of the surrounding terrain.

The school was built in 1849, as confirmed by a datestone, and first appears on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1858 captioned as 'Parochial School'. Two schools were erected in or around 1849, coinciding with the rebuilding of the Parish Church. One, close to the church, was called 'Lambeg Village School' and served female pupils, while the present building, known as 'Lambeg School', was built in Tullynacross townland and catered for male pupils. The decision to build the school was taken at a church vestry meeting, with contributions gratefully accepted from the late Marquis of Hertford, Jonathan Richardson Esq of Glenmore and his family, the parishioners and others. A Committee of patrons was established, composed of the Rector and churchwardens, Jonathan Richardson Esq, the Dean of Ross and William Gregg Esq.

Both Lambeg Schools are listed in the 'Return of all Schools in connection with the Board of National Education in Ireland in operation on 21st December 1862'. The patron of Lambeg (male) school is listed as being of the Established Church. George Richardson (Church of Ireland) served as Head and Samuel Diamond (Presbyterian) as his Assistant. The school had 190 pupils on the rolls: 89 Church of Ireland, 41 Roman Catholic and 60 Presbyterian. The '32nd Report of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland' dating from 1865 indicates that although there were 184 pupils on the rolls in that year, average daily attendance was only 57.

Initially under the jurisdiction of the Church Education Society, the school shortly after 1860 was transferred to the National Board of Education. However, according to available records, it continued to be carefully maintained by Messrs J N Richardson Sons & Owden until 1932 when it was transferred to the Ministry of Education for Northern Ireland. Henry Frazer, principal of the school until 1898, was responsible for building the 'newsroom' (captioned 'reading room' on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1902) next to the school. In 1946 the school was derequisitioned and presented to the parish by Sir Milne Barbour for use as a Sunday School. It remained in use by the church until at least 1993, after which it was converted into two private houses around 2002. The conversion successfully retained the original fenestration to the front gable while the interior was largely changed. Lambeg Village School (female) was demolished in 1955.