28-30 Railway Street, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 1XG

Mid terrace former pair of two-storey rendered houses, built c.1880, now converted into a single commercial unit. Rectangular on plan facing west lining the east side of Railway Street. L-plan range of painted brick two-storey former outbuildings to the rear of No.30 and a detached two-storey painted brick former outbuilding. Pitched artificial slate roof with synthetic ridge tiles, a redbrick chimneystack to the north and rendered chimneystack to the centre. Ogee-moulded cast-iron guttering on eaves corbels. Painted ruled and lined rendered walling with projecting render plinth course. Square-headed window openings with painted masonry sills, hood mouldings and decorative label stops and replacement timber sash windows. Front elevation is six windows wide with a large modern shopfront to the south building having fixed-pane display window and an enlarged square-headed entrance to the north building with double-leaf hardwood panelled doors. North elevation abutted by adjoining building No.32. Rear elevation abutted by full-height timber sheeted projection and a single-storey wing attached to the L-plan brick outbuilding. South elevation abutted by adjoining building No.26. Setting: Formerly two houses, this unit forms part of a terrace of four similarly detailed buildings lining the east side of Railway Street. To the rear of No.30 is an L-plan range of two-storey brick former outbuildings with pitched natural slate roof, timber sash windows and sheeted timber doors. A further detached two-storey brick former outbuilding, also to No.30 retains its original timber sash windows with a decorative lincrusta ceiling to the ground floor room, coved cornice and architrave surrounds to the window openings. Roof Fibre cement slate RWG Cast-iron/plastic Walling Painted ruled and lined rendered Windows Replacement timber sliding-sash