Farmhouse (The Grove), 7 Legaterriff Road, Upper Ballinderry, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 2EY

A slightly asymmetrical three-bay two-storey late Georgian farmhouse; built c.1830 and located down a private lane to the west of Legaterriff Road. L-shaped on plan with conservatory to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles; replacement brick chimneys to centre and decorative clay chimney pots to gables. Cast-iron half round rainwater goods. Walling is smooth render to front and roughcast to remainder with chamfered plinth and quoins. Windows are 2/2 timber framed sliding sash with exposed sash boxes having horizontal glazing bars. The principal elevation faces north. To first floor are four windows with heads at eaves level; to ground floor is central entrance flanked by paired windows with shallow segmental heads. Bolection moulded raised-and-pointed four-panelled door with cast-iron door furniture surmounted by segmental-headed fanlight with sidelights, accessed by single bull-nosed step. The east elevation has half-panelled timber door to left at ground floor with window to first floor above. The south elevation is abutted by conservatory with hipped natural slate roof and timber-framed windows; to left is a small return with catslide roof having window to ground floor and diminutive window to first floor. South gable of return is blank; exposed section has a window to ground and first floor. The west elevation has single window to ground and first floor at gable; the return has a six flush-panelled timber door with transom light to ground floor with window to right; two windows to first floor. Variety of rubble stone and brick outbuildings, arranged in a U-shape to west, including a large hay-barn and stables. All with natural slate roof, original timber-framed windows (some sash with original glazing) and brick segmental-headed arches to openings. Some unusual and important detailing such as the honeycomb brick pattern openings to first floor of barn, and the original segmental-headed timber stables doors with cast-iron strap hinges. That to south has carriage entry with original doors. Setting: Accessed by long tree-lined lane from north; set in a rural setting on a mature site. Garden to front enclosed by rendered wall with coping stoned and slender gate-piers surmounted by decorative cast-iron railings. Large garden to east enclosed by mature trees and hedgerow. Stable-yard and outbuildings to west arranged in a U-shape with original rectangular raised bed in centre of yard constructed in rubblestone masonry; original function unknown. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Smooth and roughcast render Windows: Timber framed sash RWG: Cast-iron