6 Mount Charles, Belfast

A symmetrical three-bay two-storey Regency-style former house with portico and attic, built c.1840, converted to office use in the late twentieth-century, located on the north side of Mount Charles in south Belfast. L-shaped on plan with a two-storey extension to rear, and abutted to west by a flat roof single-storey addition to adjoining building, No 4 Mount Charles (HB26/27/008). The roof is pitched natural Welsh slate, with two velux windows to rear (north) pitch; angled ridge-tiles. Extruded aluminium ogee gutters with uPVC downpipes mounted on a painted timber fascia, continuous eaves vent and projecting cornice. Raked stucco banding to east gable rising to painted rendered chimneystack with moulded coping and three yellow terracotta octagonal pots. Walling is painted ruled-and-lined stucco over projecting plinth, corniced stringcourse between ground and first floor windows set on engaged panelled pilaster mouldings which frame the ground floor. Square-headed window openings, those to ground floor set in advanced box bays with cornice and raking blocking course; those to first floor diminished in height. Bull-nosed cast masonry cills to first floor; sloped concrete cills to ground floor. Windows are replacement timber sashes with moulded architrave surrounds and profiled horns; 6/6 to ground floor, 3/6 to first floor, unless otherwise stated. Principal elevation faces south, and is symmetrically arranged, three openings to each floor, with central door opening contained within a portico comprising a canopy with dentilled cornice, supported on two slender Doric-type columns on stone pedestals. Square-headed door opening with a bolection moulded four-panelled timber door with brass furniture, surmounted by an original coloured leaded transom light, accessed by two bull-nosed stone steps. The west elevation has a single ground floor and first floor window on right side, and is abutted by the single-storey, flat-roofed extension of the adjoining building. The north elevation is largely abutted by a gabled two-bay three-storey return, detailed as main building and largely concealed from public view by a tall rear boundary wall. The east elevation has a window to left side ground floor, and is abutted by a redbrick gateway to rear yard. Setting: Located on the northern side of Mount Charles, which links University Road on the West side with Botanic Avenue on the East. The principal elevation of the building faces south, over-looking a narrow street of mainly tall, terraced former houses. Mount Charles is gated at each end. Materials: Roof; Replacement natural Welsh slate Walling; Painted ruled-and-lined render RWG: uPVC Windows: timber sliding sash