Plantation House, 74 Plantation Road, Lisburn, County Down, BT27 5PH

Symmetrical detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1800 with two-storey rendered return. Set on an elevated site to the north of Plantation Road accessed via a long tree-lined bitmac avenue opening onto the road to the southwest through rendered swept entrance screen. Rear return attached to an L-plan range of rubblestone outbuildings enclosing a rear yard. Domed shell house to the front of the house. Pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded terracotta ridge tiles and concrete coping to either gable end surmounted by a rendered profiled chimneystack. Ogee-moulded cast-iron guttering to moulded eaves cornice and cast-iron downpipes. Ruled and lined cement rendered walling with moulded render plinth course and rusticated moulded render quoins. Square-headed window openings with lugged moulded architrave surrounds, keystones, concrete sills and replacement timber casement windows. Symmetrical three-bay two-storey front north elevation with central three-centred arched door opening housing a replacement hardwood doorcase. East gabled elevation has moulded cement coping surmounted by rendered profiled chimneystack with square-headed window openings and replacement timber casement windows. Rear elevation abutted by central lower two-bay two-storey rendered return with a flat-roofed rear porch, built c.1972 and a lean-to uPVC conservatory to the west side, added c.2000. The return has a flat roof with the remnants of a balustraded parapet wall and cornice below. The south end of the return is surmounted by a rendered profiled chimneystack. Setting: The rear of the return is abutted by an L-plan range of two-storey outbuildings enclosing a concrete paved rear yard to the southeast of the house having pitched natural slate roofs, lime rendered rubblestone and redbrick walling, some timber sash windows and sheeted timber doors. The interiors are largely intact with original A-trusses, cobbled floors and ramped timber stalls. The south range has a stone stair, sheeted timber doors with architrave surrounds and a cast-iron fire surround to the upper floor. To the front of the house is a sunken shell-house with conical roof. A large landscaped garden is located to the west of the house along the bitmac lime tree lined avenue opening onto Plantation Road via swept ruled and lined rendered gate screen.