76 South Parade, BELFAST, County Antrim, BT7 2GQ

Semi-detached gable-fronted three-storey redbrick house, dated 1883. Irregular on plan facing south with entrance porch and three-storey gabled projection to west side elevation and two-storey return to rear. Located on the north side of South Parade on a modest landscaped site having rear access via rear lane. Pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles and two redbrick chimneystacks with corbelled coping. Gables embellished with decorative timber barge boards, timber finials and painted corbels to the eaves supporting original ogee-moulded cast-iron guttering and cast-iron downpipes. Redbrick walling laid in Flemish bond with projecting render plinth course, continuous painted flush impost courses to the upper floors and a continuous sill course to the first floor. Square-headed window openings with single-pane timber sash windows and ogee horns. The front elevation occupies the west half of the gabled elevation and abutted by a single-storey three-sided canted bay having lead-lined roof and the opes flanked by pilasters on a continuous sill course. To the centre of the gable is a painted masonry plaque stating; 'Daisyfield / Villas / 1883'. The square-headed window opes to the first floor have stop-chamfered masonry lintels set within segmental-headed brick arches while the second floor has a single segmental-headed window opening with a stop-chamfered masonry lintel and brick arch above. West side elevation has a single-bay gabled projection abutted by a single-storey bay window (as per front elevation) and a lean-to entrance porch to the re-entrant angle. The projection and the entrance porch have timber barge boards as per front gable while the porch has a square-headed window opening facing west with single-pane timber sash windows and coloured glass margin lights. The front door to the porch faces south and has flat panels with bolection mouldings and a rectangular overlight opening onto three nosed stone steps. Rear elevation abutted by lower gable-ended two-storey redbrick return and fronting onto a small enclosed yard. East elevation abutted by adjoining house No.78 (HB26/02/021B). To the west of the property there is a timber garage with a felt roof accessed from the rear laneway. There is an original wrought iron gate and posts to the pedestrian entrance path on South Parade. Setting: Located on the north side of South Parade on a modest landscaped site and set among a variety of similarly aged suburban types dwellings. The house to the west was demolished and a development of terraced houses was started but not finished. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Redbrick Windows Timber sash