Masonic Hall, 33 Lisburn Street, Hillsborough, County Down, BT26 6AB

A free-standing symmetrical two-storey, three-bay red-brick Masonic Hall, built c.1880 and located east of Lisburn Street in Hillsborough town centre. Square on plan with projecting porch to front and single-storey flat-roof return to rear (c.1960). Pitched natural slate roof with decorative bargeboard and finial to gable. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on projecting eaves. Walling is Flemish-bonded red-brick on plinth with black and yellow brick dressings; yellow dog-tooth and mouse-tooth string course with black brick course under eaves; black brick string course at sill and lintel level. Windows are uPVC with projecting masonry sills and decorative black brick lintels; decorative black brick course under sills. The principal elevation faces west comprising central gabled breakfront (higher one window wide) with paired windows to either side; projecting gabled porch to ground floor with decorative bargeboards and finial detailed as above; containing double-leaf raised-and-fielded four-panel door with transom light, accessed by two stone steps; decorative brick lintel (as at windows). Decorative bargeboard and finial to gable with sandstone moulded segmental-headed plaque, containing three symbols of the Masonic order. The north elevation has two uPVC windows at ground floor. The east (rear) elevation has a window at first floor left and a fire-escape door with fanlight (originally a window) at first floor right. Abutted at ground floor left of centre by the flat-roof return (of little interest); at right is a modern timber door. The south elevation has two square-headed timber-framed windows at ground floor. Setting: Set back from the early nineteenth-terrace with gravelled garden to front enclosed by sandstone parapet wall with original cast-iron railings; to centre are original gate-piers with gothic moulded shafts on a square base, supporting original cast-iron latch gate. Rubble-stone wall to rear enclosing a small yard; a new red-brick apartment block to rear has been constructed close to the boundary wall. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Flemish-bonded red-brick Windows: uPVC RWG: Cast-iron