18 McMaster Street, Belfast, County Antrim, BT5 4HP

A two-storey single-bay late Victorian terrace built c.1898 by John McMaster to designs by J. Frazer and Son, located on the east side of McMaster Street, East Belfast. Roof is pitched natural slate with clay ridge tiles, red brick chimney stack at south side; painted ogee profile cast-iron rainwater goods supported on projecting polychrome brick eaves course on ovolo moulded corbel course. Walls are English garden-wall bonded red brick laid with alternating courses of headers and stretchers with two polychrome brick string courses (including a continuous brick and sill course at first floor); windows are replacement uPVC casements horizontally divided, door is replacement timber panelled with square headed transom light, windows and door contained within camber headed reveals with polychromactic brick chamfered reveals and voussoirs, projecting masonry sills. (All polychrome brickwork now painted with exception of that above first floor windows). Principal (west) elevation contains entrance door at left accessed by polycromatic tile threshold; entrance flanked by window at right; two windows at first floor offset slightly to right. North gable is abutted by No.16 McMaster Street (HB26/08/001N). Rear (south) elevation is abutted at right by two-storey extension with pitched roof with uPVC rainwater goods. Exposed area at left contains window at ground and first floor. Extension south facing elevation contains glazed timber door at left, window at right; two windows at first floor (of varying sizes). South gable is abutted by No.20 McMaster Street (HB26/08/001R). Setting: Located at the north end of the east terrace two-storey block the house faces onto McMaster Street. The wide street formerly cobbled is now largely concrete with small cobbled area at each end. The house opens directly onto a wide pavement with granite kerbs and original lamp posts and electric lighting (former gas lights). Original tiled street signage at north and south. Rear elevation is enclosed by high level stretcher bonded modern red brick walling with painted vertically sheeted timber entrance door at centre, assessed via narrow entry which runs north south between back yards of Lendrick Street and McMaster Street. The street narrows towards Major Street at south. Roof: Natural Slate Walling: English garden-wall bonded red brick Windows: Replacement uPVC casements RWG: Ogee profile cast-iron and uPVC