51 Old Holywood Road, Belfast

A late-Victorian single-storey with attic red-brick semi-detached house dating from 1881, possibly designed by Thomas Jackson & Son. The building is attached to No. 49 Old Holywood Road and forms part of a group of two pairs of semi-detached houses with 45 and 47 Old Holywood Road, all fronting onto Old Holywood Road. It has a rectangular plan form with a single-storey modern extension to the rear.

The roof is half-hipped in plain red clay tiles with bonnet hip tiles, decorative bands of club and fishtail tiling, crested ridge tiles and terracotta ball finials. Moulded timber barge boards frame the roof, with projecting eaves supported on exposed rafter ends. Ogee cast iron guttering discharges to rectangular section downpipes. Rectangular section red-brick chimney stacks, shared with the adjoining property, have corbelled coping and red-clay chimney pots.

The attic storey is clad with vertical hung red clay tiles featuring club and fishtail bands. The walls are laid in red brick to Flemish bond with a dentilled string course at impost level, buff and black brick banding at cill level, and a projecting black brick plinth course.

The principal west-facing elevation has two bays. Window openings are square-headed with flat-arch lintels and painted cills, containing double hung timber sash windows with diamond pattern to the upper sash. The north bay contains a square-headed timber panelled door with fanlight, sheltered beneath a slated canopy in plain red clay tiles with fishtail banding, supported on decorative timber brackets. A gabled dormer projects from the attic with a three-sided canted bay window of timber sashes, supported on moulded timber brackets. The dormer cheeks are clad vertically with alternating courses of club and fishtail red clay tiling, matching the main roof detailing.

The north elevation has windows to the ground and first floors. The east-facing rear elevation is dominated by the single-storey flat-roof extension with a square-headed timber panelled door with glazing and modern uPVC casement windows. The south elevation is abutted by 47 Old Holywood Road.

The setting includes narrow paved pathways around the building and a shared lawned front garden. The rear has a lawned garden. The site is enclosed by dwarf red-brick walling topped with stone coping and iron railings with arrow rail heads. A plain wooden gate to the west is supported on rectangular section sandstone piers with moulded coping.