Wynard House, Kensington Road, Belfast, Co.Antrim, BT5 6NF

Detached three-bay two-storey with attic rendered symmetrical Italianate-style villa, built c.1870 having two-storey rear return to south with wall forming courtyard to south-west and single-storey glazed conservatory to west. The building is located to the east of Kensington Road, and set within its own grounds. It is approached from the west by a tarmac tree-lined driveway leading from Kensington Road, and surrounded by residential developments to the north, east and south. Pitched slate roof with half-gabled dormer to north and south, stone ridge tiles, painted decorative bargeboards, overhanging eaves with exposed purlins and painted timber sheeted soffit. Painted cast-iron ogee moulded guttering discharging to circular downpipes. Pair of two-stage smooth rendered chimneys to east and west with projecting cornice and terracotta pots. Smooth rendered walls with projecting plinth. Square-headed window openings with moulded surrounds and one over one timber sliding sash windows throughout, unless otherwise stated. Front elevation faces north and has three-bays with pair of single-storey canted bays flanking entrance and gabled half-dormer to attic level. Flat leaded roof to canted bays with raised parapet, projecting cornice on scrolled brackets on dentil course. Glazed mono-pitch roof to conservatory with glazed walls on renderd plinth. Smooth rendered walls with plinth, raised vermiculated quoins to ground floor and raised smooth quoins to first floor. Moulded sill course to, ground, first and second floor with ornamental frieze to second floor. Flanking pilasters to openings of canted bays. Round-headed opening to second floor with pyramidal keystone. Round-headed entrance opening with moulded surround having pyramidal keystone on pilasters. Square-headed entrance door opening with moulded transom having round-headed fan-light over. West elevation has pair of round-headed window openings at attic level and smooth rendered boundary wall extending south having painted stone coping and two-stage pier to south-west corner with projecting cornice. Square-headed openings to rear return. South elevation has gabled half-dormer to attic level with round-headed opening. Pitched roof to rear return with chimney and blank gable with boundary wall extending west having square-headed opening. East elevation has pair of round-headed window openings to attic level of main house and square-headed door opening to rear return. Setting: Located within its own grounds with lawns to north and west, hedge and fence boundary to south and east, garage to north-east and approached by tree-lined avenue from west. Pair of squared roughcast rendered piers with moulded coping and smooth plinth to entrance with wall on semi-circular plan. Cast-iron metal gateway between piers. Materials: Roof: Slate RWG: Cast-iron Walls: Render Windows : One over one timber sliding sash