Dalriada House, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Co. Antrim, BT37 0QB

Detached three-bay two-storey Italianate house, built c.1850, aligned east-west, located to grounds of the University of Ulster at Jordanstown off the Shore Road to south. Rectangular on plan, facing west; porch to west, two-storey pitched addition to north, two-storey extension to east. Roof is hipped slated with flat central section concealed behind leaded parapet, rendered chimneystack and moulded caps to ridge. Walling is painted roughcast with chamfered smooth-rendered quoins, smooth plinth stringcourse to ground floor mid-window level, moulded between floors, and frieze with projection moulded cornice. Windows are square-headed with moulded architraves. First floor are 6/6 sashes with lugged bases to architraves; ground floor has 2/2 sash with horns, moulded sills and drip moulds supported by consoles over moulded vertical banding Principal (west) elevation is abutted centrally by porch. Porch has paired Doric pilasters with simple entablatures supporting perforated parapet to flat roof, central painted timber three-panelled double-leaf door up two steps, with overlight. Porch cheeks are blank except for rectangular panel to overlight level. North elevation is multi-bay with left end abutted by addition of no interest. Exposed elevation has replacement 6/6 sashes with smooth-rendered architraves to both floors. First floor centre has three vertical multi-light casements (to staircase level), ground floor bay adjacent to addition has square-headed modern entrance and is abutted by flat-roofed covered walkway. East (rear) elevation right end is abutted by extension. Exposed elevation is three windows wide, detailed as principal elevation but ground floor windows lack consoles over vertical bands. Extension has a two-window-wide bow detailed as east elevation but with a raised (half-storey) parapet. Left cheek is two windows wide with only one window to first floor. Right cheek is abutted to ground floor by modern extension of no interest and exposed first floor is blank. South elevation has three bays with central bay abutted by three-window-wide breakfront with bow bay to ground floor (the three ground floor breakfront windows are bowed sashes). Setting Grounds of the University with car park to front, access roads adjacent and various other campus buildings nearby. Gate lodge (HB21/08/004B) is located to southeast on the Shore Road Roof: Natural slate Walling: Roughcast Windows: timber sashes Rainwater goods: cast-iron