294 Tennent Street, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT13 3GG

294 Tennent Street is an asymmetrical, two-bay, two-storey-with-attic end-of-terrace brick house built between 1907 and 1909, located on the western side of Tennent Street in the Shankill area of Belfast. The building faces east with a rectilinear plan and comprises three elevations, as it terminates the terrace with both front and rear projecting outward from the main terrace line.

The steep-pitched roof runs perpendicular to the rest of the terraces and is covered with red tiles with roll-moulded red clay ridge tiles. A tall shouldered brick chimney rises from the ground floor of the north elevation and breaks through the north side of the roof, which extends below the roofline of the main terrace. A low-level pitched roof spans between the principal roof and the south side of the chimney. The chimney features moulded detail on all faces except the south side, with tall clay pots decorated with rosette motifs on each. The principal façade displays brick corbelling and decorative moulding to the dormer eaves, with plain timber fascia elsewhere. uPVC rainwater goods are fitted throughout. Central attic windows are positioned to both front and rear.

The walling is Flemish bonded brick to the front and English Garden Wall bonded to the rear, with decorative terracotta vents throughout. All windows are uPVC with flat arch heads; brick sills are offset with some concrete replacements. The principal elevation contains two openings at ground floor level. The front door is uPVC with a moulded brick surround featuring a camber arch, and is topped by a deeply projecting flat-roofed timber canopy. A segmental-arch replacement window to the right has glazing bars and a label mould above. The first floor features a central, flat-roofed canted bay window supported on timber corbels.

The south elevation is abutted by the adjoining terrace. The rear (west) elevation contains a two-storey pitched-roof return on the right side, recently re-roofed with concrete or reconstituted stone ridge tiles. The south cheek of the return is blank, while the west gable contains central windows to the first and ground floors. The original single-storey rear boundary wall has been retained; it abuts the west gable of the return, extends westward then northward at a downward slope, continues horizontally, and abuts a fence to the north, with a doorway providing access to the yard. A camber-arched window is positioned to the left cheek of the return on the first floor. The principal rear elevation has a central window to both floors, and a small window to the left side above the return.

Both the north and west elevations and the rear return have experienced areas of brickwork rebuilding and repointing. The north elevation, which forms the terrace end, is largely blank except for the advancing chimney breast spanning most of the elevation, which has small offset buttresses at ground level. A distinctive diamond pattern in black brick adorns the centre of the chimney at ground and first floor level. Decorative lead flashing marks the abutment between the chimney and roof tiles.

The building is set in an urban location on the western side of Tennent Street, between Crumlin and Shankill Roads. The front features a small, newly paved garden with a rebuilt half-height brick wall, timber fencing, and timber gate along Tennent Street. A long, narrow garden plot extends to the rear, running westward to the boundary wall. A paved walkway runs along the rear of all properties in the terrace, between the garden plots and building rear, though this has been sealed with locked gates to the south. A gated alley runs along the north of the building between the rear and front gardens, bounded to the north by a timber fence and metal railings of the vacant land at the corner of Crumlin Road. The north gable was previously obscured by tall neighbouring buildings demolished in 2007; the north elevation now functions as the main façade facing Crumlin Road. The site is adjacent to a mixed-use business park and apartment complex to the west, built on the former site of Edenderry Spinning Mill. Crumlin Road Presbyterian Church is located to the north-east on the corner of Crumlin Road and Tennent Street.