Rhubarb Cottage, 36 Ballysillan Road, Belfast, County Antrim

Picturesque three-bay single storey painted brick former gate lodge, dating from 1876. Located on a slightly elevated site on the north side of the Ballysillan Road and orientated east-west. Built as the gate lodge for Clearstream Cottage, now demolished, to designs by Young and Mackenzie, architects. Hipped roof to existing dwelling with lead rolled ridges and fish-scale slates to all slopes except rear return which has plain slates. Flat-roofed sections are felted. Half-round gutters and circular downpipes in uPVC. Centrally placed paired chimney stack, set on the diagonal, rises from rendered plinth. Two tall clay pots. Principal elevation faces east. Walls painted brick in English Garden Wall bond. Central projecting gabled porch with timber painted panelled entrance door having plain fanlight over. Timber ornamental bargeboards with carved scrolls and applied motifs, small timber finial. Either side of porch is segmental arched opening containing tripartite casement window with panes divided into four, horizontally. Projecting painted cill. South elevation has painted brick walls. 3/3 panes to top-hung timber window in the centre. Flat-roofed extension to west end with rendered walls to cill level and glass inserted to top part of wall. Central timber sheeted half-door, painted. West elevation has flat-roofed extension to south with fixed glass to upper wall, rendered beneath. Small flat-roofed section with painted brick walls and small timber casement window linking to rear gabled return with paired casement window with panes divided into three horizontally. Window set in segmental arched opening centrally placed in gable wall. Plain timber barge-board with scrolled ends and small timber finial. Lean-to glass house to north end. North elevation has lean-to glass house set into corner between rear return and main block. Walls to main block, painted brick with centrally placed modern timber cantilevered bay window with top-hung casement to middle section. Glazed pitched roof to window. Materials: Roof : Natural slate and felt RWG : uPVC Walling : Brick and render, painted Windows : Timber casement. Setting: Located on the north side of the Ballysillan Road on a slightly elevated site behind a stone wall with stone set upright as coping. Small timber pedestrian gate gives access to garden area and path winds from gate to entrance door. Built as gate lodge for Clearstream Cottage, now demolished.