11 Graham Gardens, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 1XE

A two-storey-with-attic, two-bay red-brick end-terrace commercial building constructed around 1900, located on the west side of Graham Gardens in Lisburn city centre. The building is well-detailed in late-Victorian style with good examples of decorative brickwork. Major architectural components including early fenestration, chimneystacks and original proportions have survived.

The building is square on plan with a two-storey return and a large modern extension to the rear. It has a pitched natural slate roof with a red-brick corbelled chimneystack featuring a chamfered stalk and decorative carved raised flue. An original red-brick chimneystack with a tall terracotta pot is located to the rear. Decorative terracotta ridge tiles, bargeboards and finial ornament the gable. Cast iron ogee rainwater goods are mounted on decorative corbelled eaves.

The walling is English garden wall-bonded red-brick on a plinth, with a string course to lintels at ground floor level. A decoratively carved string course marks the first floor, and a carved platband with raised corbels runs beneath the eaves. Windows throughout are 1/1 timber-framed sliding sash with horns. Ground floor windows are segmental-headed in chamfered reveals with decorative keyblocks; first floor windows are tripartite under a decorative label mould with carved keyblock and continuous corbelled sill; attic windows are arch-headed with decorative hood moulds featuring stops and keyblock, with brackets under the sills.

The principal elevation faces east. The ground floor has two windows to the left of the entrance, each with iron bars and replacement sills, plus a replacement door with metal framework and shutter accessed by a single step. The south elevation is abutted at ground floor by a modern garage and contains two arch-headed attic windows with hood moulds, a first floor left window and a ground floor window. The west (rear) elevation is abutted by a two-storey return completely concealed by a large modern extension. The north elevation is abutted by an adjoining building.

The building is set on the west side of Graham Gardens in Lisburn town centre, forming part of a predominantly twentieth-century terrace of a unique type. It faces an enclosed car-park to the east, with a tarmacadamed car-park to the rear adjoining a multi-storey car-park.

The building first appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of around 1900, where it is captioned 'Mission Hall'. Very little could be discovered concerning the building's history in the absence of original source material, and available secondary sources are contradictory. Fred Kee's Lisburn Miscellany states that the red-brick building in Graham Gardens, then occupied by J. C. Patterson, was used as a dwelling-house by the Loan family until about 1933, though this family is not referenced in local census returns. Newhouse's history of Friends School states that the building was used as classroom accommodation when the school was requisitioned by the military during the Second World War. Visual inspection suggests the building may have been intended as the end building of a terrace which was never completed. The building continues to be occupied by J. C. Patterson and is currently used as an electronics shop.