23 Mullaghcarton Road, Ballinderry Upper, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 2NP

A 1 ½ storey three-bay mid-nineteenth-century direct-entry vernacular farmhouse, located on Mullaghcarton Road 1.5 miles north east of Maghaberry town; adjacent to HMP Maghaberry. Pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles; Victorian polychrome brick chimneys; cast-iron rainwater goods. Cement rendered walling; unpainted. 2/2 timber sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing bars; some timber casement; 6 pane half sash fixed lights to upper floor. Concrete cills and plain surrounds. Wide timber front door 1930’s style; rear door timber sheeted. The principal elevation faces southwest and is a formal asymmetrical arrangement. Flat roofed entrance porch abutting to right of centre. Single window to the right and two windows to the left. Diminished windows to first floor directly over ground floor openings. The left gable faces directly onto the road. Chimney over apex with two attic windows flanking the chimney breast. The rear elevation is asymmetrically arranged. Rear flat roofed porch abutting left of centre. Single window to the left and two windows to the right. Three diminished six-pane fixed lights to upper floor, over ground floor openings; exception to far right bay. The right gable is abutted by single-storey outbuildings arranged along the axis comprising; pitched natural slate roofing on sawn timber trusses and rafters; rough-cast render; timber sheeted doors and steel framed windows; small lean-to bay at the far left. Setting: Northwest gable facing directly onto road; adjacent to various two-storey modern dwellings. Abutting the south west elevation is a low rise wall surmounted by mild steel railing; matching gate fixed to squared piers. Yard to the rear; large modern agricultural unit and mobile home. Open rural landscape to the south east and west. Quarry to the south. Roofing: Natural slate Walling: Rendered Windows: Timber sliding sash/casement RWG: Cast-iron