24 McMaster Street, Belfast, County Antrim, BT5 4HP

Description at 26/02/2013 Description as 19/07/2011 except all windows replaced to front elevation including new timber panelled door with camber headed transom light. Paint removed from all brickwork including plinth, brick chamfered reveals and camber headed window reveals. Description at 19/07/2011 A two-storey single-bay late Victorian terrace built c.1898 by John McMaster to designs by J. Frazer and Son, located on the east side of McMaster Street, East Belfast. Roof is pitched natural slate with clay ridge tiles, red brick chimney stack at south side; painted ogee profile cast-iron rainwater goods supported on projecting polychrome brick eaves course on ovolo moulded corbel course. Walls are English garden-wall bonded red brick laid with alternating courses of headers and stretchers with two polychrome brick string courses (including a continuous brick and sill course at first floor); windows and doors are blocked. Windows and door contained within camber headed reveals with polychrome brick chamfered reveals and voussoirs, projecting masonry sills. (All polychrome brickwork now painted with exception of that above first floor windows). Principal (west) elevation contains entrance door at left accessed via concrete threshold; entrance flanked by window at right; two windows at first floor offset slightly to right. North gable is abutted by No.22 McMaster Street (HB26/08/001T). Rear (south) elevation was not accessible at time of survey. Access to enclosed yard from entry via a timber sheeted door at east, contained within high level brick walling at all sides. South gable is abutted by No.26 McMaster Street (HB26/08/001X). Setting: Located at the north end of the east terrace two-storey block the house faces onto McMaster Street. The wide street formerly cobbled is now largely concrete with small cobbled area at each end. The house opens directly onto a wide pavement with granite kerbs and original lamp posts and electric lighting (former gas lights). Original tiled street signage at north and south. Rear elevation is enclosed by high level stretcher bonded modern red brick walling with painted vertically sheeted timber entrance door at centre, assessed via narrow entry which runs north south between back yards of Lendrick Street and McMaster Street. The street narrows towards Major Street at south. Roof: Natural Slate Walling: English garden-wall bonded red brick Windows: Not visible RWG: Ogee profile cast-iron