25 Mill Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two-storey three-bay house of asymmetrical plan built of red brick with black and white half-timbered tables. Main entrance faces west. Roofs of Bangor blue slates in regular courses; terracotta ridge tiles and finials to gables; red brick chimneys. Rectangular timber windows with small panes, lower fixed light with top-hung upper light, modern replacements for original double-hung sashes (as recorded in the original specification). Flat canopy over porch supported on shaped wooden bracket; front door looks like modern replacement, in timber with small panes.

SETTING: The house stands within the built-up area of the village, facing the road but set back from it on a slightly elevated site, in its own garden. Front boundary walls of red brick with ornamentally treated original wrought iron pedestrian gate to path leading up steps to entrance. Immediately to the north of the house is a former national school (HB20/15/025A) with its later post-war additions extending behind the house.

Historical information

Built in 1909 to the designs of J. St J. Phillips, architect of Belfast, as a teacher’s residence, with a national school beside it; Messrs Law Bros of Lisburn, builders; completed by August 1909 when the school was officially opened.

References – Primary Sources
1. Irish Builder and Engineer, 21 August 1909, p 533.
2. Ministry of Finance file no Co Antrim D: 79, in MBR, Hill Street, Belfast (contains original specification dated 28 January 1909).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is an example of Edwardian domestic architecture by a prominent Ulster architect of the period but it has lost some of its original features and is of limited interest as a work of architecture.