Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB19/13/027

Address :
24 Railway Street Lisburn County Antrim BT28 1XG

Townland:
Lisnagarvey

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Survey 2:
B1

Date of Listing:
20/08/2012 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
Yes

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
165/6SE

IG Ref:
J2676 6444

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Owner Category

Private Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Mid terrace four-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1880. Rectangular on plan with integrated carriage arch and two-storey rendered former coach house to rear, forming part of a terrace of similarly scaled houses lining the east side of Railway Street. Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and pair of brick chimneystacks with octagonal clay pots, that to the south built into the gable of the adjoining house No.22 (HB19/13/026D). Cast-iron guttering on iron brackets to rendered eaves course and cast-iron downpipe. Ruled and lined cement rendered walling with rusticated render quoins, moulded render plinth course and moulded continuous sill course to the first floor. Square-headed window openings with painted masonry sills, architrave surrounds with keystones and original horizontally-glazed 2/2 timber sash windows throughout. Front elevation is four windows wide with a square-headed door opening having decorative stucco surround. Original flat-panelled timber door with brass furniture, bolection mouldings and rectangular overlight flanked by pair of fluted and panelled pilasters on plinth blocks supporting plain frieze and dentiled entablature, opening onto limestone step to the street. Elliptical-headed carriage arch opening to the left bay with smooth render surround and pair of early twentieth-century vertically-sheeted timber doors with integrated pedestrian door and central bolt stone. North side elevation abutted by adjoining house No.24. Painted rendered rear elevation abutted by single-storey lean-to projection. Square-headed window openings with windows as front elevation and a central round-headed stairhall window opening having single-pane timber sash window with coloured glass margin lights. Replacement hardwood glazed door to rear projection. Further lean-to natural slate roof extends beyond the carriage arch incorporating a cantilevered first floor projection. South side elevation abutted by adjoining house No.22 (HB19/13/026D). Setting: Set among a terrace of similarly sized houses lining the east side of Railway Street and abutting the three-storey terrace to the south. Small rear yard enclosed to the east by a two-storey rendered brick former coach house with fibre cement slate roof, vertically-sheeted timber doors and original cobbles and drain to the interior. Walled garden to north of rear yard enclosed in rubble walling. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Cement render Windows Timber sash

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

No. 24 Railway Street first appears on the third edition of the Ordnance Survey map for Lisburn (c. 1900) although it was constructed prior to c. 1885 as a photograph of Railway Street from that date clearly shows the house abutting No. 22 Railway Street (Kelly, p. 4). This two-storey building was principally used as a private dwelling, the rooms of which appear to have been let out to lodgers as a number of occupants are recorded over the short period for which records are available. The house was occupied by two families in 1901; Mary Fleming, a 79 year old Presbyterian dress maker occupied two rooms of the house whilst a Mr. Henry Lavery (65) and his wife Margaret (63) occupied a larger share of the house, inhabiting six rooms. At that time the 1901 census described the building as a 2nd class dwelling which contained these eight rooms and possessed a slated roof; the house also possessed a coach house which still exists and was accessed from the street by a coach lane. The building also appears to have been used for a time as office space; the 1901 Ulster Towns Directory records that a Mr. Henry W. Tennant, a Justice of the Peace and Civic Engineer operated from an office based in No. 24 Railway Street while he resided on the North Circular Road (Ulster Towns Directory, 1901). By the 1911 Census the house was occupied by a single family; Mr. John Magee (68), a local cattle dealer, occupied the house with his wife of 45 years Marian Magee and two of their nine children. In 1911 the census building return tells us that there were 10 rooms in the house and only one stable was recorded. In 1917 the house was occupied by Samuel Green, a retired Grocer who applied for Bankruptcy in that year. The current owner states that her family have owned No. 24 Railway Street for around a century since a Dr. George Waring, a descendent of the Warings of Waringstown, came into ownership of the house. Neither Waring nor his descendants appear to have occupied the house until after 1917 when Samuel Green resided in the house. The 1901 and 1911 Census for Railway Street do not record the Landholder. 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 c.1900 4. PRONI OS/6/1/68/4 – Fourth edition OS map 1920 5. PRONI BANK/1/1/1052 – Bankruptcy petition file, Samuel Green (1917) 6. 1901 / 1911 Census 7. Ulster Towns Directory (1901) Secondary Sources 1. Brett, C. E. B., ‘List of historic buildings, buildings of architectural importance in the Borough of Lisburn’ Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1969). 2. Kelly, J. A., ‘Footprints on the sands of time: A history of Railway Street Presbyterian Church, Lisburn 1860 – 2008’ Lisburn: Presbyterian Church in Ireland, 2008.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form I. Quality and survival of Interior J. Setting

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Mid terrace four-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1880. This late nineteenth-century house retains its original fabric and detailing both internally and externally and remains one of the last houses on the street to retain its full residential use. This well proportioned late Victorian house that has retained its coachhouse and walled garden to the rear is a fine example of an urban dwelling that has retained its use and as such is a rare survivor in the heart of Lisburn.

General Comments

Date of Survey

18 November 2010