2 Stormont Cottages, Stormont Estate, Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast, County Antrim, BT4 3XX

Semi-detached two-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1936. L-shaped on plan facing south and located on the south side of a short bitmac avenue to the south of Massey Avenue within the Stormont Estate. Half-hipped natural slate roof with gauged slates, roll-moulded lead ridges and two tall profiled red brick chimneystacks (that to the west shared with adjoining house). Moulded cast-iron guttering suppported on deeply overhanging timber sheeted eaves with exposed rafter feet and cast-iron downpipes. Painted rough-cast rendered walling with painted brick below ground floor sill course. Square-headed window openings with painted shaped brick courses and replacement timber casement windows. Garden front elevation is three windows wide with a three-sided canted bay window to the right having concrete coping to parapet. West side elevation abutted by adjoining house No.1 (HB26/13/043A). Rear elevation is three windows wide with a flat-roofed single-storey extension to the right. Two sheeted timber doors open into paved rear yard enclosed by tall hedging to the avenue and by a tall rendered wall to the east. East side elevation has an original entrance porch to the right with steep slate roof and a later sun room (c.2000) to the left, also having hipped slate roof. The entrance porch has a square-headed door opening to the north side with replacement timber panelled door with six glazed panels. Setting: Located within the Stormont Estate just south of Massey Avenue gate lodge accessed via short bitmac avenue. Small enclosed rear yard; painted rough-cast render boundary walling with red-brick coping extending from gable with arched opening and painted timber gate; tall painted rough-cast render gate piers with red-brick cappings with painted timber gates and hedging fronting onto the avenue. Large garden to the south elevation. Roof: Natural slate RWG: Cast-iron Walling: Painted rough-cast render / red brick Windows: Replacement timber casement