2 College Park East, Belfast, BT7 1PS

A High Victorian two-and-a-half storey red brick mid-terrace double-fronted building constructed in 1869 to a design by Young & MacKenzie. Originally built as a house, it is now used as university offices. The building is located at the junction of College Park East and University Avenue, with its front elevation facing west onto College Park East. It forms part of a mixed terrace of six properties; Nos 1 and 3, which are similarly styled and of the same date, stand immediately adjacent to the north and south respectively. The whole terrace, along with Hope House in College Park to the south-east, is now integrated internally. Behind the building is a two-storey return and former yard, now functioning as part of a wider alleyway converted to serve as a small car park for the adjacent university buildings. College Park East lies immediately south of Union Theological College and to the east of the main buildings of Queen's University. The front elevation overlooks a university car park.

The building is constructed in red brick laid in Flemish bond beneath a natural Welsh slate roof with black clay ridge tiles. Cast iron rainwater goods run throughout. Windows are timber sliding sash with horns, single-glazed and likely to be replacements. The roof features deep corbelled brick eaves detailing, and a stepped brick chimney with concrete coping and six clay pots stands to the left side.

Front elevation (facing west): The front is double-fronted with a painted stone plinth and brick below. A decorative brick and terracotta band runs between the first and second floor levels. To the left of the central entrance are paired window openings at ground and first floor levels, each a 12/1 sash with bevelled brick relieving arches and chamfered brick reveals. The right side features a two-storey lead flat-roofed canted bay with painted stone header bands to the window openings at ground and first floor levels, above which rises a wall-head dormer.

The central entrance comprises a tall segmental arched opening with an entirely stone surround. This surround includes ¾ column jambs with tall bases and Corinthian-like foliate capitals, a painted brick reveal, and a recessed panelled timber door with a plain fanlight above. A single 1/1 sash window is positioned at first floor level directly above the door.

At attic level, two dormers flank the roofline. The left-hand dormer is timber-clad with a timber roundel above paired semicircular headed windows; its cheeks are faced in vertical slate and it features decorative timber bargeboards, pointed timber finials and exposed rafter ends. The right-hand dormer sits above the canted bay and contains paired semicircular headed windows separated by a candy-twist painted plaster column with a Corinthian-type capital beneath brick voussoirs. This dormer also displays decorative timber bargeboards, pointed timber finials and exposed rafter ends.

The front garden has been paved with concrete paving stones and includes replacement steps and modern wheelchair ramps with metal railings. A painted plinth wall to the street is fronted by replacement painted metal railings.

Side elevations: Both the north and south side elevations are fully abutted by their neighbouring properties, Nos 1 and 3 respectively.

Rear elevation: The rear elevation of the main block is abutted centrally by an original two-storey return, both roofed in natural Welsh slate. The original yards to left and right have been converted for further university offices and classrooms, with modern flat roofs now covering these spaces. Above these flat-roofed extensions, the rear elevation of the main block displays two 2/2 windows with splayed brick headers, aligned with two small timber dormers at attic level. Each dormer contains a 1/1 window beneath a semicircular head, with painted timber cladding to the front, overhanging exposed rafter ends and slate cheeks. A single 2/2 window at second floor half-landing level sits to the right of the rear return ridge.

The north-facing side of the rear return displays three window openings at first floor level above the flat roof: a 2/2 window with frosted glass serving toilets, a 1/1 frosted window to a small store, and a larger landing window with rounded corners and brick voussoirs containing a 3/2 window with three arch-shaped plain and coloured leaded panes to the top section and two rectangular panes below (one with coloured leaded lights that open as a casement, the other plain).

The south-facing side of the rear return features four 2/2 window openings, all with frosted glass. The rear elevation of the return, facing onto the car park, has clipped eaves and contains one 1/1 window at first floor level on the left side. At ground floor level are two 1/1 windows set behind painted metal bars. The yard wall extends either side at one storey height, forming the rear walls of the modern flat-roofed rooms. A wider 1/1 window set behind metal bars appears on each side of the main return. All windows throughout are single-glazed, timber sliding sash with horns and are likely to be replacements. All brickwork is laid in Flemish bond, and rainwater goods are cast metal.