9A Ascot Gardens, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT5 6LX

A three-bay, two and three storey flat roofed modernist house dating from 1935, designed by Anthony Frederick Lucy. The building occupies an elevated site on the west side of Ascot Gardens, presenting a regular plan form with its principal elevation facing northeast.

The flat roof is covered in PVC with raised parapets finished in painted concrete coping. Inset horizontal metal tubular railings form a terrace at roof level, accessed from a second floor roof-top room. Rainwater goods comprise square section hoppers discharging to circular metal downpipes. The walls are smooth rendered and painted white with painted concrete cills, and a raised plaster band runs at roof floor level across the northeast elevation, part of the northwest and southeast elevations.

Windows throughout are square-headed replacement double-glazed metal windows with horizontal dividing panes and side hung and toplight opening casements. The principal northeast elevation is three bays wide. A projecting bay to the southeast side features a stepped parapet with corner railings, a single picture window to the ground floor and corner windows to the first floor. The main entrance is adjacent to this projecting bay, set in a recessed square-headed doorcase with an original timber framed fully glazed door and horizontal paned sidelights. Two wide concrete steps with painted finish lead to the door. A flat projecting canopy with a zig-zag pattern to its front face, painted black and white, shelters the entrance. Windows occur over the doorway at first floor level, to the northwest bay at ground floor, and at the corner to first floor.

The northwest elevation is three bays wide with a central three storey narrowly projecting bay to the stairwell, featuring a window at each floor and a raised plaster motif above the second floor window. The flanking bays are two storey with raised parapets and corner railings. The northeast bay has a corner window to first floor only and a projecting band at roof level; the southwest bay has narrow windows at each floor. A projecting flat-roofed extension to the southwest has a blank elevation to the northwest and two windows to the northeast. A recessed second floor bay to the southwest side has a flat roof and glazed wall.

The rear elevation facing southwest consists of three bays plus a single storey extension to the northwest side. This extension has a square-headed door opening with horizontal panes and narrow side- and fan-lights. A projecting square bay to the southeast side contains a central door opening with flanking sidelights and a corner window above to first floor. Ground floor and first floor windows occur to each remaining bay. The southeast elevation is four bays wide with projecting chimneys flanking the central two bays, which have narrow windows at ground and first floor levels. The outer bays have corner windows.

The site is bounded on the east side by a rendered wall with mature planting behind, accessed through a painted metal pedestrian gate. Concrete steps flanked in low rendered walling lead up to the main entrance through a steeply banked front lawn, which rises in a series of terraces. Rendered walls with regular square block detail at coping and mature planting behind define the northwest and southwest boundaries. A detached single storey garage with flat roof and two up and over garage doors sits at a lower level than the main house, accessed from the northwest side off a lane running around the rear of the property. Planting occupies the north and south sides to boundaries with adjacent properties.