Old Town Hall, Lisburn

The building was commissioned by Sir Richard Wallace as an office from which to administer the tenancies of the Hertford Estate. Wallace had inherited the unentailed tenancies from his father, Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, and had significantly expanded the estate. The rents from the estate were used to finance Wallace's extensive art collection. The site Wallace selected had formerly been occupied by a French Huguenot church which had been completed in the early 18th century. The building was designed in the neoclassical style, built in red brick with stone finishings and was completed in 1884. The office became redundant after the tenants exercised their rights to buy…