3 Ben Madigan Park, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT36 7PZ

No. 3 Ben Madigan Park is a detached single-storey villa with attic, built circa 1930 to designs by Thomas McKee, a Belfast-based builder and contractor. The house stands on an elevated site in the townland of Ballygolan, overlooking Belfast Lough to the east, and forms part of the interwar suburban development of the Low Wood, Green Castle and Ballygolan townlands.

The building is constructed on an L-shaped plan with roughcast rendered walls and a hipped red tiled roof on overhanging eaves with uPVC half-round guttering and circular downpipes. Four rusticated red brick chimneys with decorative terracotta pots and concrete capping serve the property. Square-headed dormers with hipped roofs are positioned to north and south elevations. A single-storey extension extends to the south with a hipped roof.

The front elevation, facing east, comprises three bays. Square-headed window openings feature slim render bands and painted stone sills with uPVC casement windows. A corner window serves the northern corner. The principal entrance is approached by a series of concrete steps bounded by a low roughcast rendered wall with flat painted coping. It comprises a semi-circular headed opening containing a timber and leaded glazed panelled entrance door with flanking leaded glazed sidelights. A square-headed recessed opening at basement level is also present. The rear elevation to the south is three-bayed with a central dormer and window to the south extension. The west elevation is two-bayed, as is the western elevation of the extension. The north side elevation is four-bayed, featuring three canted oriel bays on painted scrolled timber brackets with flat roofs and moulded parapets, with a central dormer above.

An outbuilding to the east has a pitched felt-tiled roof on exposed rafter ends, with cast-iron half-round guttering. The site is enclosed by a low roughcast boundary wall and hedge to north and west, with hedge to south and rendered retaining wall and fence to east. A decorative metal gateway to the north provides access to the driveway and pathway leading to the entrance steps.

The building was first recorded in the Belfast Street Directory in 1930, initially remaining vacant in 1930–31 before occupation by James Bullick, an agent for a Belfast engineering firm, who leased the house from McKee. The property appears on the fifth edition Ordnance Survey map of 1931 in its current layout, suggesting few major structural changes since construction. Bullick remained resident until at least the 1970s.

The house retains much of its original character including canted bays and red tiled roof, though replacement uPVC windows detract from its original appearance.