21 Wellington Park, Belfast, BT9 6DJ

21 Wellington Park

A brick, south-facing two-storey semi-detached dwelling constructed circa 1890, forming one of a pair within a disparate terrace in the Malone Conservation area. The building is T-shaped in plan with a full-height rear central projection mirrored with the adjacent property at number 19.

The roof is natural slate with black clay ridge tiles to the return, flanked by tall plain brick chimney stacks with corbelled courses capping and topped with four circular chimney pots. The symmetrical front elevation is built in stretcher bond red brick. Projecting two-storey bay windows flank a central arched doorway, each bay topped with a pyramidal natural slate roof edged with lead flashings and capped with an ornamental metal finial. The bay windows contain central one-over-one painted sliding sash windows with side lights separated by brick piers. Polychrome charcoal and red soldier coursing runs above the windows, with painted window cills linked across the elevation by a single course of horizontal charcoal brick banding. Between the floor levels of the ground-floor bays is a centrally positioned horizontal projecting corbelled band. The front doorway features an elliptic arch above the door fanlight, bordered with polychrome charcoal and red soldier coursing. The doorway is framed with painted circular stone columns with square plinths and shaft heads adorned with Corinthian scrolls. A painted render plinth extends across the entire front elevation, with the entrance approached via two contemporary bull-nosed granite steps. Black-coloured replaced metal guttering with circular downpipes sits above projecting brick eaves detail with a dog tooth course below.

The rear elevation echoes the roof finishes, eaves detailing and guttering of the front. The left-hand side features two windows vertically stacked with two-over-two painted timber sliding sash windows, each having two horizontal transoms. At right angles on this side are a pair of windows on the first and second floors with single-pane uPVC openings, and to the right a pair of vertically stacked one-over-one top-hung uPVC windows. The ground floor section of this wall is blank brickwork. The gable of the central projection is blank except for a centrally positioned aluminium sliding patio door. The right-hand side of the rear elevation contains a painted timber sliding sash window with two horizontal transoms at first-floor level and mahogany-framed outward-opening doors at ground-floor level. The brickwork throughout the rear is finished with masonry paint to ground floor only.

The house sits within an urban terrace context, forming part of a row of mature double-fronted attached dwellings along the north side of Wellington Park. Semi-mature trees defining the front boundary with the public footpath, together with a mature hedgerow, soften the setting and conceal contemporary paving which provides parking behind low-set double gates. The rear is defined by a high boundary wall to a shared alleyway with a personal access door, opening onto a narrow U-shaped garden and yard area circumventing the property's rear.

The cast iron and cast aluminium rainwater goods complete the material palette of red brick walls, natural slate roof, painted timber double-hung sliding sash windows, and aluminium and mahogany patio doors to the rear.