Wellington Lodge, 292 Hillsborough Road, Hillsborough, Co. Down, BT26 6HN

Wellington Lodge is a detached three-bay two-storey rendered house built around 1790, set within extensive landscaped grounds on the north side of Hillsborough Road in Hillsborough. The building is accessed via a long curved gravel avenue to the southwest and a walled yard to the northwest. A single-bay two-storey stair return connects the principal house to a multi-bay two-storey rear wing, which is possibly of an earlier date. An L-plan single-storey outbuilding is attached to the west gable of the rear wing. The house was extensively renovated around 1988.

The pitched natural slate roof is fitted with clay ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks at either gable end, topped with octagonal clay pots. Decorative moulded cast-iron guttering with lion's head motifs, supported on iron brackets, runs along the front elevation and the west elevation of the single-storey outbuilding; plastic rainwater goods serve the remainder of the building. The walling is painted rendered with rusticated render quoins and a moulded plinth course at sill level.

The symmetrical front elevation features three bays with square-headed window openings and painted masonry sills. The outer bays contain Wyatt-style tripartite timber sash windows, while the central bay has a 6/6 timber sash window. The first-floor tripartite windows are of much smaller dimensions, dating from the early to mid twentieth century with horns, and had all glazing bars reinstated around 1988. A central three-centred arched door opening contains a replacement timber panelled door flanked by sidelights with panels below, a lintel cornice above, and a spoked timber fanlight. The door opens onto a semi-circular concrete step to the front gravel area.

The west gable has a single 6/6 timber sash window to the ground floor and a smaller 6/6 timber sash window to the first floor. The rear elevation of the principal house is abutted by a central gable-ended single-bay two-storey stair return with flat-roofed accretions to either side, all connecting to the earlier rear wing. The rear wing has a natural slate roof hipped to the east and three rendered chimneystacks with replacement clay pots. The north elevation features battered pebble-dash rendered walling with randomly placed square-headed window openings fitted with uPVC windows and painted stone and concrete sills. A uPVC glazed door opens onto a rear bitumacadam-paved yard. To the east end is a further flat-roofed accretion with a uPVC glazed door connected to a flat-roofed garage structure enclosing the rear yard to the east. The east elevation of the main house has a single first-floor window with a replacement 6/6 timber sash window, while the east elevation of the rear wing is blank.

The setting is extensively landscaped with many mature trees. A stone privy stands in the northwest yard. Six cast-iron lamp standards, originally from the St. Paul's area of London, are positioned on the site. The long gravel drive opens onto Hillsborough Road to the southwest via a pair of replacement iron gates and railings with replacement octagonal rendered piers, dating from around 1990.