Caretaker's House, West Belfast Orange Hall, 7 Brookmount Street, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT13 1AP

A three-bay two-storey mid-terrace red-brick former house, now office; built 1898 to designs by William Batt and located to the west side of Brookmount Street off the Shankill Road in West Belfast. Rectangular on plan with single-storey canted bay window to front and return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with angled ridge tiles and red-brick chimneystacks. Plastic rainwater goods on brick eaves. Walling is English garden wall-bonded red-brick; decorative brick drip course above ground floor windows at right bay; painted concrete lintel above windows to canted bay. Windows are twentieth-century timber casements in segmental-headed reveals to first floor with red-brick voussoirs, all with projecting painted sills; canted bay window has slate roof and continuous sill course. The principal elevation faces southeast and is irregularly arranged. Set on a slight slope, right bay openings are slightly higher, with two windows at each floor. Left bay has two windows to first floor over canted bay. To left of centre is a replacement uPVC entrance door in a plain reveal with infilled transom light over. Door is surmounted by cogged brick hood mould and imposts, with a shallow raised keyblock. The southwest elevation is abutted by adjoining building. The northwest (rear) elevation was not viewed (see surveyor’s comments). The northeast elevation is abutted by the adjoining building (HB026/34/004A). Setting: Situated to the west side of Brookmount Street, abutting the Orange Hall (HB26/34/004A) to northeast and forming part of a terrace of two-storey red-brick houses (now vacant). Set back from the street with tiled yard to front enclosed by low red-brick wall with concrete coping topped with metal railings; pathway to entrance door laid with terracotta and yellow square tiles. Enclosed yard to rear (not accessed). Roof: Natural slate Walling: English garden wall-bonded red-brick Windows: Replacement timber casements RWG: Plastic