6 College Park East, Belfast, BT7 1PS

A High Victorian two and a half storey red brick end terrace, built in 1869 to a design by Young & MacKenzie. The building now serves as university offices. It is located at the junction of College Park East and University Avenue, with its front elevation facing west onto College Park East and a university car park beyond. The gable end faces south onto College Park. The building stands immediately south of Union Theological College and to the east of Queen's University's main buildings.

Number 6 forms part of a mixed row of six terraces with similarly styled neighbours at numbers 1–3 and number 5, all of the same date. Number 5 adjoins it to the north. The entire terrace, together with Hope House in College Park to the south-east, has been integrated internally. A modern two to three storey flat-roofed building has been constructed behind numbers 4 and 5, connected internally to numbers 5, 6, and Hope House. The former rear yards of numbers 5 and 6 have been enclosed by modern construction, with a new main entrance formed on College Park to the south-east. The rear elevations of numbers 5 and 6 are now internal.

Materials and Construction

The roof is finished with natural Welsh slate and black clay ridge tiles. The walls are constructed in red brick laid in Flemish bond. Windows are timber sliding sash with horns, single-glazed, likely replacements. Rainwater goods are cast iron.

Front Elevation

The double-fronted and asymmetrical west-facing facade is built in Flemish bond red brick across two and a half storeys. The entrance is centrally located at ground floor level, with a pointed arched painted stone engaged surround beneath a pointed arched hood mould. The hood mould terminates at each side with a decorative foliated label stop and an indented keystone to the centre. The original painted raised and fielded six-panelled timber door is topped by a plain round arched fanlight, with two replacement concrete steps leading up.

A two and a half storey canted bay projects from the right side, its top floor jettied and extending above the eaves as a large half-timbered dormer. The half-timbered jettied dormer has convex chamfered corners at each side infilled with brick in header detail, with carved timber brackets beneath the timber bargeboard, a pointed timber finial to the centre, and exposed rafter ends. The canted bay windows have continuous painted stone header bands with chamfered bottom edges. A smaller timber dormer is positioned on the left side, timber-clad to the apex with fish-scale vertical slates to the cheeks.

The paired window openings to the left of the front door on both ground and first floor levels have shallow pointed painted render heads with a row of brick headers above. A single window opening with the same head detail is located at first floor level, aligned with the front door below. All windows, apart from the dormer windows, are 1/1 single-glazed timber sliding sash with horns and chamfered brick reveals, likely replacements. The dormer windows to the jettied dormer are four-pane timber casements; those to the smaller dormer are four-pane with the top panes top-hung, both replacements.

A continuous painted stone cill course runs to the first floor windows, with a bevelled brick course immediately below. Deep corbelled brick eaves detailing adorns the two storey section below the slate roof. A two-stage brick chimney stands to the right side at the gable apex, topped with six terracotta pots. A stone corbel projects to the eaves edge on the right, with flat stone coping to the verge.

The front garden, now paved with concrete paving stones and gravel, has a painted plinth wall to the street with replacement painted metal railings. A small painted rendered plinth with brick below marks the base.

Side Elevation (North)

The north-facing side elevation is fully abutted by number 5.

Side Elevation (South)

The south-facing gable elevation onto College Park is largely symmetrical, abutted on the east side by a narrow two storey modern extension linking the rear of number 6 with the west gable wall of Hope House. The gable has a large stone corbel at each side at eaves level, with a flat coping stone to each verge and a central flat section beneath the two-stage brick chimney.

Centrally located paired windows occur on ground, first, and second floor levels. Ground and first floor window openings have chamfered brick reveals and shallow pointed painted render heads with a row of brick headers above, matching the front elevation detailing. The second floor (attic) paired arch-headed windows have arched painted rendered heads. Ground level windows have separate painted stone cills. First floor openings sit above a continuous painted stone cill band with a row of corbelled brick below. The paired second floor windows share one cill. All windows are 1/1 single-glazed timber sliding sash with horns, likely replacements.

Rear Elevation

A modern two storey extension abuts the rear wall of number 6 and number 5, linking both houses with the new block constructed to the rear of Hope House. Much of the existing rear elevation of number 6 is now internal within the new extension. A narrow strip on the south side remains external, with a modern glass panel applied to the ground level section up to window head height. Above at first floor level is a single 1/1 timber sliding sash window with horns (likely replacement) with a painted stone cill and splayed brick head. The existing eaves is visible above the roof of the extension, with PVC guttering below a flat-roofed dormer on the left side with a replacement timber triple casement window. A flat-roofed dormer with an identical window is positioned on the right side.

The (now internal) section of rear elevation of number 6 consists of painted render on the left side of ground floor level and modern timber panelling on the right side. Either side of a former opening (which retains its splayed brick head and now forms a shallow recess containing a radiator) stands a modern glass and timber door with glazed side screen, with a PVC downpipe to its left.

Directly above the door is a large arch-headed 2/2 half-landing window with coloured glass margin panes and etched glass to the main panes. A structural steel beam abuts the existing rear wall at right angles to the right of this window. First floor level consists of two 2/2 windows to the right of the half-landing window. The second floor half-landing window, a similar but smaller version of the first floor half-landing window, has been abutted by the roof of the extension, with only the bottom half visible below the new ceiling. All windows to the rear are single-glazed timber sliding sash with horns, with some likely replacements. All windows have splayed brick heads (apart from the half-landing windows) and painted stone cills. The modern glazed roof structure of the extension abuts the rear wall below existing eaves level, running north-south.