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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A three-storey, two-bay mid-terrace Georgian townhouse (now commercial premises) probably originating in the late 18th early 19th century; square plan form extended to the rear with a two storey flat-roofed extension. Located east of the Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum in the city centre; north of the junction between Bridge Street and Market Square.

Pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles; red-brick chimney with corbelled upper courses; terracotta pots. uPVC replacement rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined cement rendered walling. Replacement 6/6 timber sliding sash windows; no horns; continuous cill to first floor; individual second floor cills. Door forms part of a contemporary timber/glazed shop front.

The principal elevation faces east and is symmetrically arranged; the ground floor comprises modern shop front; plain timber pilasters and entablature with illuminated signage at frieze level; modern awning over. The first and second floors two windows wide. Full length plain pilaster located to the left of the first and second floor; shared with adjoining building.

The left gable is abutted by 7 Market Square.

The rear elevation is entirely abutted by a two storey, flat roofed extension, comprising large roller shutter at first floor level and horizontal glazing to the ground floor.

The right gable is abutted by 11 Market Square (HB19/16/025)

Setting:

The building is prominently situated in the centre of the city, forming part of a terrace of similar styled three-storey buildings facing directly onto the market house. To the rear of the site is a large graveyard belonging to Lisburn Cathedral (HB19/16/001).

Roofing: Natural slate
Walling: Ruled-and-lined render
Windows: Timber sliding sash
RWG: uPVC

Historical information

The town of Lisnagarvey, as it was known until the 1660s, was first established in the early seventeenth century when James I granted Sir Fulke Conway the south Antrim manor of Killultagh. Sir Fulke established the headquarters of his Killultagh estates at Lisburn and began to lay out its foundations in the early 1620s (Mackey, p.1) By 1640 the town had been laid out very much along its present lines, with a central market place and streets radiating from it. (Mackey, p.x) After a disastrous fire in 1707, the town was quickly rebuilt to its former street plan using improved materials, brick replacing wood and slates and tiles replacing shingles. Rebuilding was encouraged in the aftermath of the fire by Lord Conway who granted forty-one year leases on the waste holdings. (Ulster Star 20/04/2007; Mackey, p.4)

A building on the site is shown on Pattison’s 1833 map of the area but an exact date for the current building could not be established. Nothing is known of its early history and the building could not be identified in Griffith’s Valuation or census records.

The building is currently in use as a hair salon.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/1/68/1 – First Edition OS Map 1833
2. PRONI OS/6/1/68/2 – Second Edition OS map 1857
3. PRONI OS/6/1/68/3 – Third Edition OS Map c1900
4. PRONI OS/6/1/68/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map 1921
5. PRONI OS/6/1/68/5 – Fifth Edition OS Map 1939

Secondary Sources

1. Mackey, Brian “Lisburn, the Town and its People, 1873-1973” Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2000
2. Ulster Star 20/04/2007

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A three-storey, two-bay mid-terrace Georgian townhouse (now commercial premises) probably originating in the late 18th/early 19th century. The ground floor of the front façade is a modern shop-front and the Georgian style and proportions of the upper floors have been retained. Internally the building has been completely modified with few features of interest or distinguishable plan form remaining. Although the building makes a contribution to the adjoining terrace and to the historic character of Market Square it is not considered to be of sufficient quality to merit listing.

General comments

This record was completed without access to the primary source material held by PRONI