Gospel Hall, Loopland Road, Belfast, Co.Antrim

Single storey framed hall with attached foyer, used as a Gospel Hall, situated on Loopland Road, built 1950. Single bay, orientated east/west with painted, timber cladding to exterior walls and bitumen-type covering to felted pitched roof. Located in small car-park bounded on all sides by cast-iron railings and with paired vehicular gates to southern boundary. Framed and pitched roof with felt, now covered with bitumen-type paint to main hall and corrugated fibre cement roofing panels to foyer at different pitch. Painted timber bargeboards and uPVC rainwater goods. Main elevation faces west. Corrugated panels, now painted, to walls with timber framing to window and door openings. Central entrance door, recessed with shallow concrete step from car-park. Pair of timber doors, panelled and painted, opening outwards. Metal window with obscure glass, divided into six panes with one upper light with top-hung opening to either side of door recess. North elevation has corrugated panels to walls of foyer section (right-hand side) with horizontal painted timber cladding between framed uprights, placed between windows. Brick plinth to main part of hall. Three painted timber windows, three panes over three panes, with upper section top hung along length with vertical frames between. Make-shift timber and wire grilles to all windows. Projecting lean-to at right-hand section with shallow pitched roof with corrugated panels. Vertically boarded timber sheets to wall and pair of painted timber two-panel doors, outward opening to north face. East elevation has timber boarded wall to lean-to with metal window with obscure glass, divided into six panes with one upper light with top-hung opening. Gable wall of hall has brick plinth and man-made panels, painted. Painted timber bargeboards with exposed rafter-ends. Small square opening, placed centrally on wall at high level, framed with timber and faced with wire with fan behind. South elevation has corrugated panels to walls of foyer section (left-hand side) with horizontal painted timber cladding between framed uprights, placed between windows. Brick plinth to main part of hall. Four painted timber windows, three panes over three panes with upper section top hung along length with vertical frames between. Make-shift timber and wire grilles to all windows. Materials: Roof: Felted with bitumen-type finish RWGs: Upvc Walls: Corrugated panels and timber cladding Window: Metal. Setting: Located on the north side of Loopland Road behind cast-iron railings which bound entire site. Ground within railings has bitmac surface.