Hope House, College Park, Belfast, BT7 1PS

Hope House is a late Victorian detached house built in 1873 to a design by Young & MacKenzie. It is now used as university offices and has been integrated with Nos 1-6 College Park East on its western side via a connecting extension. The building is situated on College Park, a pedestrianised street connecting Rugby Road to the east with College Park East to the west, immediately south of Union Theological College and east of Queen's University's main buildings. A modern two-storey flat-roofed building now abuts the original rear wall and encloses the former rear yards of Nos 5 and 6 College Park East.

The house is a two and a half storey structure built in red brick with a natural Welsh slate roof and red clay ridge tiles.

The front facade facing south is double-fronted and asymmetrical. It is built in red brick using Flemish bond with a centrally located ground floor entrance and two bays: a single-storey canted bay to the left with a replacement lead roof, and a square bay to the right with a replacement lead roof. The first floor features a pair of window openings above the canted bay on the left, a single centrally aligned window above the entrance, and a single opening above the square bay on the right. At attic level, there are large wall-head dormers on each side with terracotta finials, featuring paired window openings to each; a modern Velux window sits between them. The dormers appear to be a later addition, evidenced by different brickwork.

The entrance comprises a replacement timber panelled door beneath a semicircular plain fanlight set within a semicircular arch-headed opening. It is surrounded by a painted stone engaged surround and topped by a pointed arched hood mould terminating in decorative foliated label stops on each side. An indented keystone marks the centre. The lettering "HOPE HOUSE" is carved on either side of the keystone, with small carved roundels featuring flower motifs beside it. The entrance is raised three steps (replacement concrete) above the pavement, with modern ramps, steps, concrete dwarf walls and metal handrails now present.

Windows to the front elevation are replacement timber top-hung. Window openings have chamfered brick reveals, except for the dormer windows which have plain reveals. The canted bay windows feature continuous painted stone header bands with chamfered bottom edges. The first floor window openings have shallow pointed painted render heads with a row of brick headers above. A continuous painted stone cill course runs along the first floor windows with a bevelled brick course immediately below.

Deep corbelled brick eaves detailing runs below the roof. Plain brick chimneys flank the apex of the gable, with six terracotta pots visible on the left side and three on the right (the right side total is uncertain). Both chimneys have four courses of modern brick to their top sections. Stone corbels mark the eaves at each side with flat coping, possibly concrete, to the verges.

The western side elevation is largely abutted by the modern connecting extension, with only the apex of the gable wall and chimney exposed.

The eastern gabled side elevation faces onto a narrow alleyway and is asymmetrical. At eaves level, large stone corbels sit on each side with flat coping stones to the verges and a central flat section beneath the chimney. Ground floor contains a single window opening on the extreme left and two further openings towards the right (the left opening is a window; the right is a modern ventilated door). First floor has three window openings: one on the extreme left and two towards the right. Attic level has two smaller window openings. Ground and first floor openings share the same detailing as those on the front elevation: chamfered brick reveals and shallow pointed painted render heads with a row of brick headers above. Second floor arch-headed windows have arched painted rendered heads. Ground floor windows have separate painted stone cills; first floor openings sit above a continuous painted stone cill band with bevelled brick below; second floor windows have separate painted stone cills. All windows on this elevation are replacement timber top-hung or casement.

An eastern wall of the original rear return extends northward from the gable wall, featuring a single window opening at half-landing level with a brick soldiered head and bevelled brick eaves. The modern extension begins from this point and extends northward.

The original rear elevation (north) has been removed and fully incorporated into the modern extension.

Rainwater goods comprise cast iron guttering with PVC downpipes.