82 North Road, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT5 5NL

A detached three-bay two-storey Classical building constructed between 1879 and 1880 from coursed rubble sandstone with red sandstone dressings. The main house is symmetrical in plan, with a two-storey gabled extension to the west, another two-storey two-bay gabled extension to the north-west, and a third two-storey canted bay abutting the south-west corner. The building occupies a prominent corner position at the junction of North Road and Upper Rock-faced Road.

The main roof is hipped with natural slate, featuring clipped gables to north and south with projecting eaves and painted bargeboard fascia and soffit. Half-rounded cast-iron guttering discharges to circular downpipes. A pair of rebuilt buff brick chimneys with concrete coping and terracotta pots are centred on the ridge. The north and north-west extensions have pitched slate roofs with a clipped gable to the north. An advancing rubble coursed sandstone chimney breast leads to the stack of the north-west extension with skews and projecting coping to the east. A chimney stack to the north-west extension is dressed stone carved with the date 'AD 1895'.

The east-facing front elevation is three bays and symmetrical, with single-storey projecting square bays flanking the main entrance. The coursed rubble rock-faced sandstone walling has quoins with tooled margins. The projecting bays are ashlar red sandstone with coursed rock-faced plinth, stone sill and header, topped with projecting sandstone cornice and leaded flat roof. Upper windows to the first floor are one over one timber sliding sash with stone surrounds. A Greek-style red sandstone portico to the entrance has a pair of Corinthian columns supporting a sandstone entablature with projecting cornice and leaded flat roof. The entrance opening is square-headed with a stone step leading to a timber panelled door with fan-light over.

The south elevation is three-bay two-storey with an advancing pier to the west corner and a single-storey stone wall set perpendicular to enclose a rear yard. The west side has a two-storey canted bay with ground and first floor openings. A projecting two-storey single-bay entrance from the west extension has a ground floor opening with brick surround and timber panelled entrance door.

The gabled south elevation of the north-west extension features red sandstone coursing at the header level of the first floor and two ground floor window openings with top-hung casement windows with toothed brick surrounds. The west elevation includes a two-storey canted bay to the south bay of the main house and a gabled extension with ground and first floor openings. A mono-pitch advancing single-storey extension to the ground floor has a stone wall extending south to enclose the rear courtyard. The north elevation has ground and first floor openings to the main house and west extension, with a clipped gable to the north-west extension.

All windows are one over one timber sliding sash with square-headed openings, stone ashlar red sandstone surrounds and sandstone sills, unless otherwise stated.

Within the grounds stands a single-bay gable-front rubble sandstone outbuilding set parallel to the main house. A painted wall to the west, predominantly stone with brick coursing evident towards the top and capped by a rounded terracotta coping, is punctuated by two segmental arched door openings. The southern opening leads to a single-storey monopitched out-house, whilst the northern opening leads to the garden. Together with the south-west outbuilding, the painted wall, and a metal gateway to the south, these elements enclose a rear courtyard.

A hedge boundary to the north-east adjacent to the front elevation encloses formal gardens to the north. Lawn extends to the north, west and east with a formal hedge boundary to the east and mature tree planting to the north and west. Entrance gateways to the north-east and south-east are marked by pairs of square-plan rock-faced pillars with pyramidal copings. Yellow gravel chippings surface the driveway and parking area.