6 Shandon Park, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT5 6NW

6 Shandon Park, Belfast

This semi-detached villa is one of a pair, built in 1906 in the Arts and Crafts style. It is attached to No. 8 Shandon Park to its south. The house is set back from Shandon Park within its own gardens, with a driveway and tarmac parking to the north, a paved parking area to the west, and gardens to the east.

The building is three bays and two storeys with a dormer attic, constructed of brick and roughcast render. It features a projecting gable to the west, a mono-pitch conservatory to the north, and a gabled rear return to the east. The pitched roof is covered in natural slate with saw-tooth terracotta ridge tiles and a finial to the dormer. Decorative painted bargeboards and eaves boards are present, with uPVC ogee moulded guttering discharging to uPVC square downpipes. Two-stage roughcast rendered chimney stacks rise from the north with flat sandstone coping and circular yellow terracotta pots. A brick central shared chimney has a cornice to its sandstone coping with circular terracotta pots.

The front elevation faces west with three bays. A two-storey canted bay to the north has a leaded hipped roof, and a single-storey central entrance porch with a leaded hipped roof is positioned to the centre. The south-west includes a dormer. The ground floor is constructed of red brick with roughcast rendered upper floors, featuring a projecting rendered cornice stringcourse between ground and first floors. A smooth rendered plinth extends to the conservatory with horizontal timber sheeting to its apex. The canted bay has a projecting rendered plinth. Painted stone sill courses appear to ground and first floor windows, with a painted header course to ground floor windows.

Windows to the ground floor are square-headed, while first-floor openings are segment-headed with moulded surrounds. Ground floor windows are one over one timber sliding sash, whilst upper floors have six over one timber sliding sash windows. The central window to the canted bay is an eight over one timber sliding sash. The conservatory features square-headed openings with a mono-pitch glazed roof.

The dormer has a pitched slate roof with decorative bargeboard and finial, rendered walls, and a square-headed opening with a timber casement window. The entrance door is square-headed with a timber panelled door, a multi-pane fanlight above, and flanking sidelights. This entrance is approached by a short flight of concrete steps with a metal handrail and balustrade on a concrete plinth with chamfered coping.

The north elevation includes the ground floor conservatory and a six over one segmental arched window to the first floor of the main house. The rear return is three bays and two storeys with red brick to the ground floor and roughcast rendered upper floor, featuring a decorative brick string course. Windows have square-headed openings with rendered sills. Two over two timber sliding sash windows appear to ground and first floors, with a replacement timber casement window to the upper floor. A pitched slate roof covers the rear return.

The east elevation contains a central gabled rear return, a two-storey flat roof extension to the south bay, and a single-storey extension to the north. The ground floor of the main house has a pair of windows; the north bay contains two over two timber sliding sash windows. The single-storey extension has a flat felt roof with a projecting rendered eaves course. A square-headed door opening to the rear return has a rendered header with a timber framed glazed door and side light.

The south elevation is attached to the adjacent property 8 Shandon Park.

The property is enclosed by a mature hedge boundary. A single-storey outbuilding is located to the north-east, attached to the single-storey extension at the rear by a metal gateway leading to the rear garden. Mature planting and hedging appear to the west with trees to the north. Paving to the west includes raised planting beds adjoining the building.