63 King's Road, Belfast, Co.Antrim, BT5 7BT

63 King's Road, Belfast

A two-storey, three-bay red-brick house built in 1907 to designs by Blackwood & Jury, Belfast architects. The building has a rectangular plan form facing north with a two-storey rear return on the west side, a single-storey canted extension to the south, and a detached red-brick gabled garage to the east.

The house sits south of King's Road, set back from the street behind stepped red-brick boundary walling with reconstituted stone coping and square-section red-brick piers. A gravel yard occupies the front, with painted timber side gates to east and west leading to the rear garden.

The roof is pitched fibre cement with terracotta roll-top ridge tiles and projecting eaves. Painted timber bargeboards face east and west, with timber soffit and facia. Guttering is ogee-profile uPVC discharging to circular-section uPVC downpipes. Rectangular-section red-brick chimneys rise from each gable with moulded cappings; the east chimney carries terracotta pots while the west has a mixture of buff and terracotta pots. A further mid-ridge chimney with rectangular section serves the rear block.

The walling is predominantly English Garden Wall bond with cement pointing on a raised red-brick plinth.

The principal north-facing elevation features a central doorcase flanked by two-storey, three-sided canted bays with hipped roofs. The doorcase contains a square-headed painted timber six-panel door with a semi-circular arch decorative fanlight above, flanked by a red-brick drip mould with moulded red sandstone corbel stops. Original brass doorbell and letterbox are present, with a later metal plaque inscribed "Linbrook". The door opens onto three brick steps. A segmental arched red-brick window opening occupies the first-floor level above the door. The canted bays have continuous painted stone cills at each level, with a dog's tooth brick course above ground-floor window heads and a moulded brick course below first-floor cills.

Windows throughout are typically square-headed top-hung uPVC casements with bevelled edge surrounds.

The east elevation includes a mono-pitch block set back from the main building with a window at first-floor level that has been blocked with red brick (originally square-headed). A recent extension projects south from this block with a canted southern end, hipped roof, and corner windows. The main building attaches to a single-storey red-brick garage via a red-brick wall containing a square-headed gate opening with a brick pediment above and painted timber gate. The garage features a varnished boarded timber vehicular door to the north, stepped brick kneelers, and reconstituted stone coping to raised gables.

The west elevation contains no window openings and features a mid-ridge rectangular-section red-brick chimney with painted timber bargeboard to the gable. A mono-pitch two-storey rear block is set back from the main building, with a single-storey flat-roofed block infilling the space between. A recent extension projects south from this return.

The south elevation was not recorded during survey due to access restrictions.