54-56 Antrim Street, Lisburn, County Antrim

Symmetrical detached two-storey redbrick building, built c.1934. Rectangular on plan facing west onto Antrim Street with flat-roofed single-storey wing fronting onto Bachelor’s Walk. Hipped natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and a single redbrick chimneystack rising from the rear elevation. Plastic guttering to boxed timber overhanging eaves and cast-iron downpipes. Redbrick walling laid in stretcher bond and projecting stone plinth course with soldier course of redbrick to continuous stone sill course. Camber-headed rubbered brick window openings with stone sills and timber sash windows with exposed sash boxes. Symmetrical front elevation is five windows wide with central shallow breakfront. 6/9 timber sash windows to the ground floor, 3/6 to the first floor and a tripartite front entrance comprising square-headed door opening with replacement timber door and large overlight flanked by pair of slender fixed-pane sidelights and flush concrete lintel over. North side elevation fronts onto Bachelor’s Walk and is two windows wide. Rear elevation is abutted by a flat-roofed single-storey wing, six windows wide with 6/9 timber sash windows and a single square-headed door opening having double-leaf timber panelled door and rectangular overlight. Rear elevation has a series of diminutive square-headed window openings with casement windows. South side elevation fronts onto McKeown Street and is three windows wide. Setting: Fronting onto Antrim Street on a site between Bachelor’s Walk to the north and McKeown Street to the south opposite Bow Street Mall. Roof Natural slate RWG Plastic / Cast-iron Walling Redbrick Windows Timber sash