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

8 Shandon Park is a semi-detached three-bay two-storey villa with dormer attic, built in 1906 in the Arts and Crafts style. It is constructed of red brick at ground floor with roughcast rendered upper floors, and is attached to its neighbour 6 Shandon Park to the south. The building features a projecting gable to the west and a gabled rear return to the east.

The roof is pitched 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 chimneys rise from the building: a two-stage roughcast rendered stack to the north with flat sandstone coping and terracotta pots, and a central shared brick chimney with cornice to sandstone coping and circular terracotta pots.

The west-facing front elevation is divided into three bays. A two-storey canted bay with leaded hipped roof projects to the south, with a single-storey central entrance porch also featuring a leaded hipped roof. A dormer projects to the south-west. The ground floor is red brick with a projecting rendered plinth to the canted bay, painted stone sill course, and painted header course to windows. A projecting rendered cornice stringcourse marks the line between ground and first floors. Ground floor windows are square-headed with one-over-one timber sliding sash lights, while first floor windows have segment-headed openings with moulded surrounds and six-over-one timber sliding sash lights. The canted bay contains an eight-over-one timber sliding sash window. The dormer has a pitched slate roof with decorative bargeboard and finial, rendered walls, and a square-headed opening containing a pair of timber sliding sash windows. The entrance door is timber panelled with a multi-pane fanlight and flanked by sidelights, set within a square-headed opening and approached by a short flight of concrete steps with painted rendered plinth and chamfered coping.

The south elevation features painted red brick at ground floor with a six-over-one segmental arched window at first floor. A square-headed opening at ground floor contains a one-over-one sash.

The rear return is three-bay and two-storey, with red brick ground floor and roughcast rendered upper floor marked by a decorative brick stringcourse. Openings are square-headed with painted rendered sills, containing two-over-two timber sliding sash windows.

The east elevation comprises a central gabled rear return, a two-storey flat-roof extension, and a single-storey smooth rendered extension with mono-pitch slate roof to the north bay. The first floor of the rear extension contains a square-headed opening with a margin paned timber sliding sash window with coloured glazing.

The building stands set back from Shandon Park within its own grounds. A tarmac driveway and parking area lie to the south and west. A single-storey outbuilding is located to the south-east, enclosed by timber sheeted fence with gateway access to the rear garden. The rear gardens are enclosed by mature hedge boundary, with paving to the west and mature planting, hedge boundary and trees to the south and west.