190 Belmont Road, Belfast, Co.Antrim, BT4 2AT

Semi-detached asymmetric three-bay, two-storey with attic red-brick late-Victorian house dating from 1897 having three-storey central tower to south and single-storey rendered extension to north. ‘L-shaped’ plan with projecting pediment gable and dormer to south and gabled return to north elevation. The house is located on the N side of Belmont Road and attached to No. 192 Belmont Road (HB26/12/036B). It is set back from the main road with dwarf wall and hedge boundary to south and tree-lined boundary to west and north enclosing gardens to south and north. Pitched slate roof with saw-tooth terracotta ridge tiles, projecting eaves course with dog-tooth and egg and dart brick cornice. Ogee moulded uPVC guttering and downpipes. Pyramidal slate roof to tower with cast-iron finial. Red brick chimney with corbelling and recessed coping, terracotta chimney pots. South front elevation with two-story canted bay with hipped leaded roof. Projecting smooth rendered plinth. Red brick walling with torus brick string course between ground and first floor, dog-tooth string course at impose level to first floor windows and moulded string course between first and second floor. Half-dormer window on egg and dart moulded bracket. Square-headed openings with projecting painted stone sill course to canted bay. Round-headed openings to second storey. One over one timber sliding sash windows throughout having moulded horns. Square-headed door opening to east elevation of tower with drip mould over and floral label stops. Five-panelled timber entrance door with fan-light over. Three steps to entrance with terracotta tiles. West elevation has single-storey projecting bay with leaded flat roof and moulded brick eaves course. Smooth rendered panel to north-west ground floor. North elevation has asymmetrical pitched roof to brick-built rear return with square-headed windows facing north and east, rendered to ground floor. Blank elevation to rear wall of main house. Single-storey smooth rendered gabled extension. East elevation is attached to adjacent property, No. 192 Belmont Road (HB26/12/036B) Roof : Natural slate RWG: Upvc Walling: Red brick Windows : One over one timber sliding sash (single-pane) Setting: Located to the north side of Belmont Road, 190 Belmont Road forms one part of a pair of semi-detached red brick late-Victorian buildings. The building is set back from the road, with a dwarf red brick wall and formal hedge to south and a pair of brick entrance piers with flat rendered coping and decorative painted mild steel metal gateway. Elevated brick planting beds to front with bitmac parking area to west and north and lawns and garden to north. Rendered wall enclosing rear yard contains a single square-headed door opening with diagonally sheeted door.