117 Hillhall Road, Lisburn, Co. Antrim, BT27 5BT

117 Hillhall Road is a house forming part of a south-facing terrace built along the Hillhall Road approximately one mile from the centre of Lisburn towards Belfast. The building dates from the early 19th century, though it may be considerably older. Originally part of a group of three dwellings, the terrace has been subdivided: numbers 113–115 to the west now form a single statutorily listed dwelling (HB19/09/004A), while number 117 remains as a single unit to the east.

The house is constructed of roughcast-finished walls with a slightly recessed base and smooth termination at the gable. The thatched roof, originally covered with scraws and thatch, retains much of its original timber structure though the roof has been strengthened and is now covered with corrugated iron. The wall heads have been raised to accommodate this new construction. A red brick chimney stack, corbelled with two pots, rises over the position of the central hearth. The roof oversails at the gable and is finished with a plain bargeboard.

The front elevation has a sheeted entrance door with plain rectangular fanlight, flanked to the left by one and to the right by three plain sashed windows. All front openings are set within plain plastered surrounds. The sills of the two rightmost windows drop to follow the slope of the pavement. The east gable is blank without openings. Rainwater goods are of metal. The rear elevation has plain sashed windows without plastered surrounds. A slated lean-to extension is attached at the rear with an entrance on the west side and two plain windows.

Historical records show the terrace was depicted on the Ordnance Survey map of 1833–34. By the second valuation of around 1860, eleven thatched houses were recorded within the terrace. The revised Ordnance Survey map of 1857 bears the notation 'old turnpike' beside the terrace, indicating that one of the dwellings may have served as a toll-keeper's house prior to that date. Much of the terrace was demolished in the mid-20th century, with only this building and the two smaller dwellings to the west surviving. Although the external appearance has changed and the internal layout has been altered somewhat, the original arrangement may still be ascertained.