30 Malone Park, Belfast BT9 6NJ

Detached, three-bay, two-storey, red brick late Victorian house with a symmetrical facade and hipped roof, built c.1890, located on the N side of Malone Park in South Belfast. One of a number of large private residences, in a large private garden and screened from view by mature planting. Rectangular plan with single-storey canted bays; three-storey red brick return to rear (NE) elevation and single-storey hipped roof addition with glazed lantern, further abutted by a lean-to garden room. Pie-ended natural slate roof with leaded ridges and hips, central section bounded by ornate metal cresting; three redbrick chimneystacks, rising from the wall-head of each secondary elevation respectively, each with three yellow terracotta pots. Gauged brick egg-and-dart corniced eaves support original profile cast iron rainwater goods. Flemish bonded redbrick walling over brick plinth; simple stringcourses to lintel and cill levels; ornate studded stringcourse between floors and forming a cornice to all canted bays. Square-headed window openings to ground floor having incised stone lintels; segmental-headed openings to first floor with gauged brick hood mouldings; windows are 1/1 timber sliding sash with horns throughout, all over projecting cills. Principal elevation faces south-west, and is symmetrically arranged with canted bays to either side of main entrance, each bay having three windows, and brick parapet detailed with terracotta paterae. First floor windows are paired to either side, with single window to centre, aligned with the entrance below. Principal entrance comprises a round-headed opening set in a tall, slightly projected brick surround inset with polished granite half-colonettes, having sandstone capitals, impost mouldings and base, brick archivolt with pointed sandstone keystone and studded cornice; there are (painted?) paterae to spandrels. Original timber door with six bolection moulded pointed panels and plain overlight, accessed via four bull-nosed steps. NW elevation not accessible at time of survey. NE elevation is abutted by three-storey return, plainly detailed with pitched natural slate roof and timber fascia. Variety of window openings in plain reveals, including margin-paned stairwell windows. The addition has a hipped roof with glazed cupola with tall pyramidal roof with finial and original profiled rainwater goods; a lean-to garden room abuts to E side, fully glazed with obscured glass over a brick plinth. SE elevation has a canted bay to right side, closely flanked by an additional single window, and with a pair of windows aligned directly over. The left side is dominated by a projecting chimneybreast. Setting: Located on the N side of Malone Park, one of a number of large private residences, in a large private garden and screened from view by mature planting. Vehicular entrance to south west, accessed via a gravel drive. Roof: Slate Walling: Brick RWG: Cast iron Windows: Timber sliding sash with single glazing