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No.	BUILDING	Category	DATE TYPE, ARCHITECT, ETC.	REFERENCES
30	SEYMOUR STREET No. 20		Three-storey red brick late Georgian with quoins, fanlight and simple columnar doorcase.
31	BASIN LANE No 7a		Two-storey small Georgian house.
32	SEYMOUR STREET Nos. 1/3 CASTLE STREET No. 51/53		Two and three-storey stuccoed 18th century houses of classical design.
33	CASTLE STREET No. 46		Now part of Convent School; plain Georgian 3-storey; General Nicholson's house; an untruthful plaque has been affixed.
34	CASTLE STREET No. 11	A	Three-storey red brick Georgian dwelling, now cement-rendered, with very tall thin stone Ionic pilaster at each end of facade and a good Ionic porch.
35	CASTLE STREET No. 9/13		Three-storey Georgian stucco dwellings well painted and ca red for.
36	Group: Railway Street and Batchelors' Walk		Pleasant streets of very definitely congruous terraces, only a few of much individual distinction, but providing an admirable double approach to the Courthouse and Railway Station.
37	RAILWAY STREET Nos. 6/22		Good three-storey Georgian brick or stucco houses with glazing bars intact and some arched doorways. The backs of the houses are of stone.
38	RAILWAY STREET Nos. 40/42		Two-storey stucco houses c. 1820 with good doorways fanlights and glazing bars.
39	RAILWAY STREET Nos. 11/15 & 17		The shop at No. 17 has pretty and unusual Regency double glazing bars in arched windows.
40	RAILWAY STREET No. 35		A narrow house with a fine carved wooden mid-Victorian doorcase supporting a wooden oriel window.
41	HOTEL, corner Railway Street/ Bachelors' Walk	A	c. 1870; a very fine solid frilly building. On each front, good lettering, fluted Doric columns; a pleasant iron balcony joining charming two-light window oriels (at first floor level); much good stucco ornament.
42	COUNTY ANTRIM ARMS PUB Market Square		"Whiskey Bonder and Wine Importer". The upper floors, a fine stucco classical facade with two fat Corinthian pilasters, round headed windows and a fortified balustrade with coat of arms; the ground floor deplorably debased. Before and After photographs of this pub won first prize in the 1968 'Outrage' competition organised by the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society.	Country Life l5 May 1969.

No.	BUILDING	Category	DATE TYPE, ARCHITECT, ETC.	REFERENCES
43	MARKETPLACE No. 27	A	Excellent vernacular stone gable in extravagant Dutch curves, the gateway to the former Grain Market, with inscription '1896 remodelled and enlarged' - but nothing now apparent behind gate.
44	MARKET PLACE No. 6		Two-storey stucco house, now rather skewwhiff, with good large Ionic doorcase and glazing bars.
45	MARKET PLACE Nos. 15 /25		Pleasant ordinary 1830 ish brick terrace, 2-storey, glazing bars, incorporating pub with coach-archway.
46	MARKET PLACE Nos. 1 /13 BOW STREET Nos. 81 /85		Later but similar terrace, with patterned brick work; incorporating Swain's Shop; and to turn corner; constituting a presentable if undistinguished group leading the eye to:
47	BOW STREET No. 68	A	Fine 3-storey stucco house of very early 19th c; at present painted a regrettable green colour; wide windows in architraves, 3 bay, glazing-bars complete; coach entrance to one side of fine central doorcase with Ionic columns and uncommonly elaborate fanlight; quoins.
48	BOW STREET No. 59 Jordans, Grocers & Millers	A	One of the most pleasing shopfronts left in Ulster. Three-storey stucco, glazing bars complete, uncommonly well-painted with good lettering above shop; nice 1840-ish shop doorway; barley-sugar columns between shop windows; the shopfront surmounted by a splendid large cross-eyed carved wooden lion, painted realist ically. The lion has recently been lovingly restored.
49	HERALD OFFICE, Bow Street, No. 32		c, 1885; redbrick, undistinguished save for a splendid roofline above - three pleasing large terra cotta knops on a nice curly parapet - and the shopfront itself, a good example of modest and homely art nouveau, surmounted by a fine carved wooden canopy.
50	J. T. GREEN, Butcher Bow Street, No. 23	B	1924. Butcher's shop with fine dark sea-blue ceramic the shopfront incorporating panel with Highland bull and cow above doorway, swags, and Ionic pilasters; inside delightful and very hygienic tiled farmyard scenes of sheep and pigs in uncommon merit, portraying cows, suitable surroundings.
51	Group: LONGSTONE STREET/CHAPEL HILL		Entrance to town from west by way of well-scaled traditional terraces of houses and cottages, mostly stuccoed or painted; individually few, if any, of distinction, but together worth noticing.
52	CHAPEL HILL Nos. 94/96	B	Two-storey blackstone terrace, perhaps late c l8
53	CHAPEL HILL Nos. 39 /53	B	Two-storey stone and brick terraces complete with glazing bars, perhaps 1830's, important as an introduction to St. Joseph's Hall & St. Patrick's Church.

No.	BUILDING	Category	DATE TYPE, ARCHITECT, ETC.	REFERENCES
54	WARREN COTTAGE Hillsborough Road		Pleasant plastered and creeper-covered two-storey house and outbuildings, overlooking Lagan Bridge and river, regency glazing bars downstairs, Georgian upstairs.
55	WAREN VIEW (sic), Hillsborough Road		Terrace of 8 very narrow little 2-storey houses, plastered, of c. 1840 overlooking river; regency glazing bars.
56	GATELODGE Manor Drive, No. 1	A	c. 1855. Lodge of exceptional merit and interest: dressed stone, with 2 and 3-light pointed windows framed in dripstones; carved armorial plaque ("Viet Virtute") over front door; elaborate and very pretty curly bargeboards.
57	Group: ROSEVILLE and GROVE ESTATES, N. I. Housing Trust.	B	For the most part, an exceptionally well-laid-out estate, except for the rather coarse blocks of flats built much too close to the foaming sluices of the Lagan. In general, the layout makes excellent use of the contours and existing trees - there is a splendid Irish yew (said to be 200 years old) incorporated in the foot of Roseville Park. The slopes of the river-bank along this entire stretch constitute an uninviting and extended rubbish-dump; they could and should be charming. On a gable wall in Grove Street there has been daubed a cynical but accurate direction-sign to the river - "Voilent Playground → ". This seems to sum up pretty neatly Lisburn's attitude to its river-frontage.
58	KILRUSH GRAVEYARD, Millbrook, opposite Roseville	A	A fine grassy open space, with good early 19th c. memorials, and yew and other trees, overlooking the river; neglected, ruinous, and guarded by ugly spikes and barbs.
59	WAREHOUSES, . below Roseville estate, opposite Island.		A number of fine but ruinous warehouses - one especially with windows in recessed arches - moulder opposite the hideous scrapheap of the island; their walls at least could be incorporated into any redevelopment of this charming riverside site.
60	Group: BRIDGE STREET Nos. 1/29		Terraced houses, largely c. 18th, of mixed quality, but mostly well-painted if inappropriately shop-fronted.
61	BRIDGE STREET Nos. 8/48		Much better terraces, now largely windowless, roofless and abandoned.
62	BRIDGE STREET No. 50	B	Hayloft pub; nice small 3-storey pub of c. 1800, plastered and suitably painted, but disfigured by obtrusive electric signs.

No.	BUILDING	Category	DATE TYPE, ARCHITECT, ETC.	REFERENCES
63	BRIDGE STREET	B	Large stone warehouse beside Union bridge, of c. 1840, the front and side spoiled by inappropriate placards, the back ruined by seedy corrugated outbuildings; but redeemed by the tiny and charming riverside garden below the parapet, obviously a rewarding labour of love: a shining example of how the whole riverside should be.
64	Group: QUAY STREET	A	No. 8, a splendid if very battered 3-storey late Georgian house with unusual fanlight and columnar doorcases the whole street worth preserving as a unit; with
65		A	Waterside warehouses (the old barge harbour of the 1780's) now mostly ruinous and derelict, but still capable of restoration as a riverside leisure centre; alas, at present no access to the steep wooded slopes below the Castle Gardens - which demand to be opened up as a charming riverside park, extending to Roseville estate.
66	Group: HANCOCK STREET/CANAL/ STREET/GREGG STREET		This group of streets, including a few outstanding buildings and lying just opposite the trees of the Castle Garden and the cathedral spire, could prove infinitely rewarding if, with the preceding group, sympathetically redeveloped and restored.
67		A	15 Hancock Street, with 1/7 Stannus Place (off Gregg Street). An absolutely outstanding L-shaped unit. 15 Hancock Street is a fine three-storey colourwashed brick or stone and brick building, with its own garden, looking out across the river. 1 Stannus Place is a similar quoined two-storey building turning the corner. 2/7 Stannus Place is a superb terrace of six three-storey houses set at right angles to the river; all are of cream-painted brick, with admirable black details; glazing-bars; and splendid Gibbsian rusticated stone doorcases, like the stone quoins black-painted. Some doorcases have been altered but could be restored. The whole magnificent terrace appears to date from about 1820.
68		B	Nos. 1 /13 and 15 Gregg Street, 22 Gregg Street, 16/22 Hancock Street, and, 1, 2/8 Canal Street well deserve notice; and might well be reconstructed and re-integrated into a smaller number of modernised dwellings.
69		A	Probably 1764, by Thomas Omer. Lock-keeper's house, beside the twelfth lock on the old Belfast-Lisburn canal. A now-grubby whitewashed building, with sandstone• quoins, and recessed voussoirs in walls; of great merit and charm, but now boarded-up with corrugated iron; blackstone boathouse at rear.	E, R. R. Green, Industrial Archaeology of Co. Down.
70			A terrace of 2-storey whitewashed cottages of about 1835, some with glazing bars intact.

No.	BUILDING	Category	DATE TYPE, ARCHITECT, ETC.	REFERENCES
7l	THE ISLAND		No longer an island, since the canal and lock have been stuffed with rubbish. The site of the l8th century vitriol works , and of the subsequent Island Spinning Company - the buildings, until the mid-1960's, were neatly kept; though they constituted an industrial intrusion into the riverscape of a cathedral town, their composition - part-stone, part-brick - and the elegant castellations of their outworks were far from unpleasing they conveyed at least some of the romance of the earlier years of the industrial revolution. They now stand amidst an inexpressible scrap-heap, the buildings untended, surrounded by the rusting feraillerie of the mid-20th century. It is incredible that planning permission should ever have been granted for such a use of so important and attractive a site. It could still be rescued - at a cost.	E, R. R. Green op. c it.
72	YOUNG STREET Nos. 3/55, 71/97		Long and well-scaled terraces of redbrick two-storey houses, post-Georgian (1840's? ), not without merit, and well worth modernising into larger units when their useful life in their present units is done.
73	THE CLOSE., Old Hillsborough Road	A	A delightful enclave of the 1840's or so, stone-built cottages, single-storey but some with dormers, a11 with elaborate wooden porches, regency glazing-bars, and good detailing.
74	Group: SLOAN STREET Nos. 31/39, 43/45, 47		Good blackstone two- or three-story terrace houses, some with nice bracketed canopy porches, of pleasing scale. The even numbers are brick terraces of less interest; but the whole wide street is pleasantly homogeneous as an approach to the town.
75	SLOAN STREET No. 41	B	Presbyterian Church Hall, formerly school: a simple blackstone building with three round-headed windows articulated in brick.
76	CROMWELL'S HIGHWAY No. 1		c. 1800. Single-storey cottage with low door and glazing bars, roughcast.
77	HILLHALL ROAD Nos. 98/100, 113/115	A	c. 1800. Two pairs of thatched cottages, single-storey glazing bars intact, just at town boundary, straddling the road .
78	HILLHALL ROAD No. 117	B	The slightly larger and better cottage next door has a lovely new corrugated roof. A11 these could well be restored as a group.