Summer House, 6 Clonevin Park, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 3BL

Summer House, 6 Clonevin Park, Lisburn

A small early 20th-century summer house, originally located in the rear garden of Strathmore, a two-storey red-bricked villa approximately 200 metres west of Friends' School Lisburn. The building was demolished post-2011 for the development of a new dwelling.

The summer house was a timber-framed structure on smooth rendered masonry walling, with vertically sheeted tongue-and-groove gables. The roof comprised pitched timber shingles with timber ridge tiles, cast-iron half-circle guttering with circular downpipes, timber fascia, and decorative barge boards.

The principal elevation faced south and was symmetrically arranged. The front featured a centrally located timber front door with a bi-partite upper glazed panel incorporating matching coloured glazing, with paired vertically sheeted panels finished flush with the rails and stiles. The door was flanked by a single bi-partite casement window. The left and right gables were identically arranged, each comprising a pair of bi-partite casement windows. All windows were single-glazed timber-framed casements with timber cills; each pane incorporated two rows of individual square panes of alternating coloured rolled glass. The timber sheeted gable heads featured projected barge boards with decorative wrought-iron scrolls at the gable apexes. The rear elevation was finished in blank corrugated tin.

The summer house sits within well-maintained gardens with a large lawn bounded by hedgerows. The parent house, known as Strathmore, appears on the fourth edition Ordnance Survey map of 1921. By 1900, Clonevin Park had been laid out and building had begun; the third edition map shows two adjacent houses already constructed. The summer house plausibly dates to the same period as Strathmore, circa 1905. Strathmore is listed in the 1910 Belfast/Ulster Street Directory as the residence of Nelson Russell, an estate agent and property broker aged 46 in 1911, who lived with his wife, two sons, and a domestic servant from County Derry. The 1911 census records that Strathmore had eight rooms, with a stable and coach house listed as the only outbuildings.