53 Park Road, BELFAST, County Antrim, BT7 2FX

Detached two-bay two-storey with attic brick and rendered house with pair of two-storey redbrick bays, built 1915, with two-storey gabled-ended return and modern redbrick extensions added c.2000. Square on plan, facing north and located on the south side of Park Road within its own small plot. Elaborate panelling designed for the Britannic Liner inserted c.1922. Pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded terracotta ridge tiles and terracotta finials, central redbrick chimneystack with terracotta pots and original ogee-moulded cast-iron guttering to decorative moulded redbrick eaves and plastic downpipes. Decorative moulded brick eaves continues as a raking cornice to either gable end. Pebbledash rendered walling with redbrick quoins, redbrick plinth course and continuous moulded redbrick string course between floors. Original timber sash and replacement timber casement windows. Symmetrical two-bay two-storey front elevation dominated by pair of two-storey three-sided canted bay windows having segmental-headed openings at ground floor level with 6/1 original timber sash windows having ogee horns and continuous sandstone sills. First floor timber casement windows set in timber frames with 6-pane overlights and surmounted by decorative timber cornice to moulded metal guttering. East gable is abutted by a modern hardwood entrance porch with hipped natural slate roof and replacement timber panelled door. Single square-headed window opening to attic level with 6/1 timber sash window and further off-centre square-headed window opening to first floor with paired timber sash windows as above. Rear elevation abutted by gable-ended two-storey rendered return with redbrick quoins and chimneystack. West gable has several square-headed window openings with 6/1 timber sash windows and two segmental-headed window openings at ground level with replacement timber casement windows. Setting: Situated on the south side of Park Road on its own modest plot forming part of a variety of turn of the century dwellings and surrounded by mature trees. Roof Natural slate RWG Orginal cast-iron guttering. Plastic downpipes Walling Pebbledash render Windows Original timber sash. Replacement timber casement