34 Station Road, Antrim, BT41 4AB

34 Station Road, Antrim

A two-storey house in Edwardian Free Style with a gabled and hipped attic storey. The main entrance faces north-west. The building is constructed primarily of red brick to the ground floor with a moulded brick plinth and moulded brick string course. The first floor is finished with white painted roughcast render, red tile hanging in the apex of the left-hand gable, and half-timbering with smooth panels in the right-hand gable and central entrance bay.

The north-west elevation comprises a central entrance bay flanked by gabled side bays. The roofs are of red Rosemary tiles with decorative ridge tiles and terracotta finials. Moulded timber barge boards with oversailing eaves on shaped timber brackets run across the elevation. Two chimneys in red brick with brick cornices stand on the roof, each with five original pots. A dormer window with a hipped tiled roof and finial contains a 3-light rectangular timber window with original Queen Anne Revival glazing bar pattern. Cast iron gutters and downpipe are fitted.

The central entrance bay features a ground floor with an elliptically arched doorway with stop-chamfered reveals and moulded drip, containing an original arched timber panelled and glazed door with elliptical window and shaped apron. To the right is a small rectangular timber sliding sash window, 1 over 1 with horns, set in a segmental-arched opening with projecting chamfered cill; an extract fan is fitted in the top pane. Above on the first floor is a 3-light window set in half-timbered panelling with elliptically arched timber windows containing decorative leaded lights in Art Nouveau style. The side of the entrance bay is of half-timbered panelling.

The left-hand gabled bay has ground floor segmental-arched rectangular timber coupled 3-light windows, sliding sash, vertically hung, each 1 over 1 with horns, with a plain projecting stone cill. The first floor window is similar to the ground floor. The attic contains a rectangular timber 3-light casement window in a rectangular oriel with shaped timber brackets.

The right-hand gable features a projecting angled bay to the ground floor. The front face contains a segmental-arched 3-light timber sashed window; the angled corner contains a similarly sashed one-light. Above on the first floor is a similarly sashed one-light. Extending to the left and set back is a single storey wing in red brick with a hipped red tiled roof, cast iron gutter with pvc downpipe, two segmental-arched openings, and cast iron gutter with pvc and cast iron downpipes. The end wall of the single storey wing contains a rectangular timber sliding sash window, 1 over 2 with horns.

The north-east elevation has roofing and walling as the north-west. An original dormer window with a flat roof contains 3-light timber windows. Oversailing eaves are supported on four wrought iron brackets with horse-shoe shaped terminals. Pvc gutter with pvc and cast iron downpipes are fitted. First floor windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, 1 over 1 with horns.

Projecting from the ground floor is a single storey outbuilding with a lean-to red tiled roof, extending to a screen wall in red brick enclosing a small side yard. The wall steps up to the right-hand side with a later modern brick lean-to additional projection to the north. This addition has synthetic slates to the roof and pvc gutter. The yard doorway to the rear elevation is segmental-arched containing a timber boarded door. The doorway in the later extension is square-headed, containing a modern flush timber door with tongued and grooved sheeting to the side. The north side of the later addition contains a rectangular timber 2-pane fixed window.

The rear elevation has roofing and walling as the north-east elevation. Pvc gutter and cast iron gutters and downpipes are fitted. A dormer with four wrought iron eaves brackets contains 3-light windows with a flat roof. A larger later dormer with a flat roof and smooth rendered walls contains a rectangular glazed pvc door and sidelight, leading onto a modern steel fire escape stairway to ground level. The first floor also contains a modern rectangular glazed timber door leading onto the fire escape. First floor windows include one in a segmental-arched opening with a rectangular timber sliding sash 1 over 1 with horns, one similar to the ground floor, and two larger 3-light coupled sashes.

The south-west elevation contains similar elements including an original flat roofed dormer with four wrought iron eaves brackets. Two windows to each floor are set in segmental-arched openings with 3-light coupled sashes.

The building stands on what were originally its own enclosed grounds, now opened up into a larger hospital site. It faces the main road but is set back from it with a grassed area and car park in front. An access road runs alongside it. Car parking is located to the rear. Mature trees bound the site to the north and west.