Brookhall Historical Farm, 2 Horse Park, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 2QU

Brookhall Historical Farm is a symmetrical detached three-bay one-and-a-half-storey rendered house built around 1870, incorporating fabric from an earlier dwelling. The building is rectangular on plan, facing south with a front entrance porch, a single-storey wing to the west, a projection to the east and a rear extension. It stands well back on the north side of Ballinderry Road, east of Horsepark, on a 20-acre farm. The house is now used as an entertainment venue and self-catering holiday accommodation.

The pitched natural slate roof features black clay ridgecomb tiles and a pair of rendered profiled chimneystacks with octagonal clay pots. Metal guttering is fixed to decorative pierced timber fascia with exposed rafter feet and cast-iron downpipes. The gables have decorative pierced timber bargeboards supported on carved timber brackets with overhanging sheeted timber eaves. The rendered walling is painted with ruled and lined finish, a render plinth course and render rusticated quoins.

The symmetrical three-bay front elevation is abutted by a square-plan entrance porch and features a pair of gabled wall-head dormers breaking through the eaves with decorative pierced timber bargeboards and turned finials. The ground-floor windows are square-headed with painted masonry sills and single-pane timber sash windows, some retaining historic glass; paired openings flank either side of the entrance porch with moulded architrave surrounds. The central entrance porch has a front window and a square-headed door opening to the west cheek. Corner Doric piers support a plain frieze and deep cornice with blocking course. The square-headed door has a moulded architrave surround, an original four-panelled timber door with raised and fielded panels, iron door furniture and a rectangular overlight, opening onto a tiled step to the front bitumac area. The west gable is abutted by a single-storey wing with a single window opening. The rear elevation has irregularly placed square-headed window openings with replacement timber casement windows and is abutted by a single-storey extension with a double-pitched natural slate roof, lead valley, ridgecomb tiles, a single rendered profiled chimneystack and a pair of landscape timber casement windows. A square-headed door opening with vertically-sheeted timber half door is located to the west cheek. The east gable is abutted by a single-storey wing with a front gable further abutted by a modern conservatory. Two round-headed window openings to the upper level have horizontally-glazed timber sash windows.

The property sits on a 20-acre farm with a single-cell rubblestone former church building to the rear yard, extensively remodelled around 1988, enclosed to east and west by single-storey converted outbuildings. Access is via a long winding bitumac avenue through the front garden. A single-storey rendered gate lodge is located at the entrance on Ballinderry Road, with a replicated structure built around 1990 to the north under the same roof with a carriage arch between the two units. Replacement iron railing and gates on cast-iron posts open onto Ballinderry Road.