288 Tennent Street, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT13 3GG

An asymmetrical, two-bay, two-storey-with-attic terraced brick house constructed between 1907 and 1909, located on the western side of Tennent Street in the Shankill area of Belfast. The building faces east and is rectilinear on plan, with a two-storey gabled return and a single-storey lean-to structure to the rear.

The principal elevation features Flemish bonded brick with decorative clay vents, and a pitched red tile roof with roll-moulded red clay ridge tiles. A single brick chimney with moulded detail on the principal face carries tall clay pots decorated with rosette motifs. A timber-framed dormer window serves the attic, with clay tile cheeks and a replacement window; a modern skylight has been inserted to the rear roof slope. Half-round uPVC rainwater goods line the brick eaves course, with decorative brick corbels to the main elevation and cast-iron downpipes to the first floor, including a hopper dated 1907.

At ground floor, the principal elevation is two openings wide. The central feature is a white uPVC front door surrounded by moulded brick with a camber arch, surmounted by a deeply projecting monopitched timber canopy. This canopy is supported by the projecting first floor of the adjoining building (HB26/36/001F) and features exposed timber eaves, a red tile roof, and applied half-timbering detail. To the right stands a fully glazed canted bay window. The first floor contains a central, wide segmental-arched casement window with offset painted brick sills, label moulding, and replacement timber sheeted decorative shutters.

The south elevation is abutted by the adjoining terrace (HB26/36/001F). The rear (west) elevation includes a two-storey pitched-roof return; the south cheek is blank, while the west gable has a central window above a replacement lean-to single-storey brick and slated structure, formerly a coal shed now forming part of the kitchen. A single-storey conservatory is abutted to the gable end. The north cheek features an enlarged window and door at ground floor and a small window at first floor, alongside an original single-storey yard wall. The principal rear elevation has central windows on both ground and first floor, with roughcast to the first floor; an attic window sits to the left above the return. A timber sheeted and braced door provides access through the boundary wall to the internal yard.

The rear elevation also displays English Garden Wall bonded brick, with replacement timber casements throughout featuring flat arch heads and concrete sills to the ground floor. The north elevation is abutted by the adjoining terrace (HB26/36/001H).

The building is set within an urban context on the western side of Tennent Street, between Crumlin and Shankill Roads. A small newly paved garden with a rebuilt, half-height brick wall and cast-iron gate fronts the property along Tennent Street, with a long, narrow garden plot running west to the boundary wall at the rear. A paved walkway extends along the rear of all properties in the terrace, between garden plots and buildings, though it has been sealed with locked gates to the south. To the west lies a mixed-use business park and apartment complex, sited on the former Edenderry Spinning Mill. Crumlin Road Presbyterian Church (HB26/36/009) stands to the north-east at the corner of Crumlin Road and Tennent Street.