25 Bloomfield Road, Belfast

Semi-detached three-storey redbrick Arts & Crafts style house with applied timber framing to 2nd storey, dated 1900, most likely by architect W.J. Moore. Regular plan form facing north with a three-storey gabled bay to front elevation, a two-storey gabled projection to west elevation and a two-storey return to rear. The house forms part of a row of 3 pairs of semi-detached houses to the south side of Bloomfield Road. Pitched natural slate roof with roll top red-clay ridge tiles, red-clay knob finials and a shared redbrick chimneystack with corbelled coping. All gables have timber barge boards; half-round cast-iron guttering and circular cast-iron downpipes throughout. Redbrick walling is laid to a variation between the English-garden bond and the Scottish bond (four courses of stretchers to one of headers) with projecting plinth course. Opes to front and side elevations are square-headed with stop-chamfer jambs to brick openings on the principal elevations and original 1/1 double-hung timber sash windows with ogee horns. The front elevation has a two-storey three-sided canted bay supporting a third storey gabled projection, rendered with mock timber detailing; timber brackets, continuous painted sill course, flush painted lintel course, terracotta mouldings and terracotta plaque to the centre of each bay. The west side elevation has a two-storey single bay gabled projection. A segmental-headed door opening facing north with replacement timber panelled door and fanlight is approached by a single nosed step. Painted sills, flush painted lintels and terracotta mouldings. There is a terracotta plaque over the main doorcase. The rear elevation has a two-storey redbrick return with pitched natural slate roof, roll top red-clay ridge tiles and a single course of decorative bricks. Although no access to rear was granted, door and window openings seem to be square-headed with replacement top-hung timber casement windows. East side elevation abutted by adjoining house No. 27 (HB26/10/001D). The front yard is divided into a paved pathway and a modest landscaped garden enclosed by redbrick wall topped by metal railings; square redbrick gate piers with stone capping supporting a timber gate. Directly to the rear of the building is an alleyway separating the dwelling from a row of three-storey terraced houses. The terrace forms the end of three terraced streets, facing North East and fronting on to Bloomfield Road near St Donards Church of Ireland (HB26.10.03) Materials: Roof: natural slate Walling: red brick RWG: cast iron Windows: timber sash