84C Sandown Road, Belfast, Co.Antrim, BT5 6GU

Detached five-bay two-storey villa over basement, built around 1900, located within a private residential complex north of Sandown Road in Belfast. The building is surrounded by red brick apartment blocks to the east and west, with landscaped gardens, lawns and pathways to the south, east and west bounded by hedges and trees. A metal gate and fencing enclose the complex, with a tarmac driveway leading from Sandown Road.

The villa is rendered throughout and features a hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and oversailing eaves on a cavetto moulded eaves course. Five rendered chimney stacks with projecting moulded string courses, coping and octagonal terracotta pots rise from the roof. Ogee moulded metal guttering discharges to circular metal downpipes.

The five-bay south-facing front elevation features shallow projecting hipped bays flanking a single-storey entrance porch recessed at ground floor level. The rusticated ground floor has a projecting plinth and moulded stringcourse. The smooth rendered first floor displays a continuous moulded cill course. The entrance porch has a flat leaded roof with balustraded parapet and moulded coping, supported on four columns with moulded plinths on steps and a projecting cornice and frieze. A three-centred arched opening to the first floor contains a panelled pilaster supporting a moulded surround with keystone and roundel to the spandrel, with paired round-headed stained-glass windows inset. The round-headed entrance door opening has a timber panelled door and fanlight to the east side of the recess. A cast-iron scrolled bracket and octagonal lantern ornament the entrance porch.

Windows throughout are square-headed one-over-one timber sliding sash, except where otherwise stated. The east elevation has three bays with a tripartite window to the ground floor and a single-storey timber-framed conservatory extending east.

The north elevation features advancing east and west bays with hipped roofs flanking a gabled bay to the main house, with projecting smooth rendered chimney stacks to the centre of the flanking bays. The west elevation has three bays with smooth rendered plinth to the basement and a tripartite window to the ground floor.

A single-storey hipped roof extension extends to the north from the basement level of the main house, dating to around 2010, with three bays and a square-headed door opening. A lower ground floor extension to the north, also from around 2010, has seven bays with advancing east and west bays flanking central three bays containing an entrance with square-headed opening. The extension to the north has a flat roof with raised parapet forming a terrace to the ground floor, featuring a moulded string course and coping with smooth rendered walls.