Glenmore House, 14 Lambeg Road, Lambeg, Lisburn, Co.Antrim, BT27 4QA

Glenmore House is a detached, rendered former country house built around 1860, incorporating an earlier house and extended around 1900. It stands as a Grade B1 listed building on the south side of Lambeg Road in Lambeg.

The house is a multi-bay, two-storey building with attic storey, square in plan and facing south. It was recently converted into 18 apartments around 1995, with most original fabric replaced. The grounds have been developed with three-storey rendered apartment blocks to the north and east, enclosing the site.

The roof is hipped with natural slate, rising to several tall profiled render chimneytstacks and several round-headed dormers. The west elevation features a full-height semi-circular bow with a semi-conical slate roof and central tunnel-vault with a series of lights. The ridge has roll-moulded lead work. Replacement metal rainwater goods run along the deep overhanging eaves cornice, which is supported on a series of scrolled modillions.

The exterior is finished in painted ruled-and-lined rendered walling with moulded string courses at eaves, sills, and plinth. A deep moulded continuous cornice runs between ground and first floors. All window openings to ground and first floors have moulded sills on continuous sill courses, supported by pairs of console brackets with panelled aprons. Ground floor window openings have moulded architrave surrounds. Replacement single-pane timber sash windows with ogee horns are fitted throughout.

The front elevation comprises five bays: a three-bay central section flanked by double-height single-bay advanced bays. A tetrastyle portico spans the space between these bays. It comprises two pairs of Doric columns on raised plinth blocks and a single column to either end, supporting a full dentilated entablature. The portico has a concrete paved floor, with pairs of Doric pilasters to the walls, a central round-arched door opening flanked by a pair of round-arched window openings. The soffit is coffered with dentilation and compartmentalised panelling. The door is flat-panelled timber, and round-headed timber sash windows flank the entrance.

To the first floor, the segmental-headed window openings have a continuous moulded string course at impost level, rising to surround the head of each window with cavetto stop-chamfered moulded reveals. The three central openings open onto a terraced roof of the portico with decorative balustrade.

The west elevation is multi-bay, two-storey, with a central semi-circular bow containing 3/3 timber sash windows. Segmental-headed window openings to the first floor are detailed with continuous moulded string courses at impost level, surrounding each opening.

The north and east elevations are multi-bay and two-storey. The north elevation has an off-centre square-headed secondary door opening with a modern moulded surround, glazed timber door and panel above bearing the lettering 'GLENMORE HOUSE'. Smaller square-headed window openings to the first floor have cavetto stop-chamfered reveals below continuous impost moulding, with segmental blind panels above. The east elevation is detailed similarly across eight bays.

The entire house is encircled by a raised planter with bitumac parking on all four sides. Steel palisade fencing borders the south elevation, with modern apartments to the north and east. Large steel gates open onto Lambeg Road.