Glebe House, 128 Ballinderry Road, Upper Ballinderry, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 2NL

Glebe House is a symmetrical three-bay, two-storey stucco former glebe house designed by Thomas Turner while working in Charles Lanyon's offices, built around 1845 and situated to the north of Ballinderry Road in Upper Ballinderry. The building is square on plan with a west two-storey projection, a two-bay three-storey return at the north, and single-storey extensions to the north-west internal angle at the rear.

The roof is hipped with natural slate, concrete ridge tiles, and a central rooflight. Deep overhanging eaves are supported on paired timber brackets, though there is no overhang to sections of the rear elevation and return. Five rectangular smooth rendered corbelled chimneystacks, each with a projecting plinth at its base and surmounted by two decorative clay pots, rise through the roof. Concealed gutters with exposed cast-iron downpipes run around the building, though rainwater goods to sections of the rear elevation and return are replacements.

The walling is ruled and lined stucco with a projecting plinth, a thick banded string course, and painted stepped quoins. Windows are primarily 6/6 horizontally divided timber-framed sliding sashes, diminutive at first floor level. At ground floor, windows are contained within moulded architraves surmounted on projecting masonry sills supported by two console brackets. First-floor window openings are raised over blank recessed panels with flush sills. The north return and extension contain a combination of 3/6 timber casements and 6/6 replacement timber sliding sash windows.

The principal symmetrical elevation faces south and is three bays wide. At ground floor is a central projecting single-storey entrance porch with a flat roof, flanked by single windows to left and right, with three equally spaced windows at first floor. The entrance itself comprises chamfered vermiculated rusticated quoins to projecting corners, a projecting moulded plinth, moulded string course, and projecting blocking course. The east cheek contains an eight-panel raised-and-fielded entrance door with brass ironmongery, surmounted by a round-arched headed fanlight set in a moulded archivolt. The door is accessed by two masonry steps. The south and west cheeks contain round-arched headed 6/6 timber sliding sash windows surmounted by moulded archivolts with keyblocks.

The west elevation has a two-storey projection at the left containing a tripartite window at ground floor and a single window at first floor. To the right is a single-storey bowed window containing a bowed tripartite window and lead-capped flat roof, surmounted by two windows. The north elevation is abutted at the left by a two-and-a-half storey return with pitched natural slate roof. A single-storey extension has been added around 2001 to the internal angle at the right. The exposed walling here is blank with a chimney projecting from the eaves off-centre at the right. The north two-bay two-storey return appears to have been extended or remodelled to its north side, with varying styles in wall finish and window detailing. The roof to this section is natural slate with a central chimney stack.

The south elevation at ground floor is abutted at the right by a single-storey extension built around 2001. Two windows remain at the left, with two windows at first floor left, and two 3/6 timber sliding sash windows at right and four 3/6 at second floor. All windows to the left bay are replacements. The north gable contains a replacement double-leaf entrance door at ground floor surmounted by a single oversized round-arched headed window spanning first and second floors. The east elevation is abutted at ground floor by a modern roof covering enclosing a narrow entry between the north return and a parallel arrangement of single-storey stores. The window arrangement to first and second floors on the east elevation mirrors that on the west elevation. The exposed wall of the single-storey stores contains a large wall-hung bell, and the narrow entry is accessed through a replacement timber-panelled glazed door.

The north extension is rectangular on plan with a hipped roof and raised parapet with concealed rainwater goods. Walls are smooth rendered, and doors are modern double-leaf glazed, with a single opening at the north and two openings at the south.

The setting comprises a large site with mature vegetation and a long tree-lined avenue providing access to the house. The house is accessed from Ballinderry Road through a double alcoved entrance. The entrance at left provides access to the farm to the north, while the entrance at right provides access to the house and an adjacent gate lodge. Both entrances feature square-plan smooth-rendered piers with pyramidal caps supporting replacement metal gates, attached plinth walls with replacement railings.

A stableblock containing eight stables is located to the north, aligned east-west. External features are largely intact except for replacement windows at first floor and a lean-to slated canopy recently added to the north and south elevations. The roof is pitched natural slate with a timber-louvered ventilation cowl. Walling is painted roughcast-rendered, and half-stable doors are timber-sheeted with original ironmongery. A roughly coursed rubble stone wall abuts the north-west corner of the stableblock and encloses a large garden and tennis courts to the south. A lane to the north side of the wall provides access for farm vehicles to Ballinderry Road.

Additional structures on the site include a large metal farm shed to the north of the farm, of little architectural interest, and a smaller square-plan double garage, possibly the former coach house, located to the east of the farm. This garage is constructed from roughly coursed rubble stone walling with a hipped natural slate roof. The north yard is also accessed from the east through square-plan roughcast-rendered pillars with stone pyramidal caps.