21 Bloomfield Road, Belfast

Semi-detached three-storey redbrick Arts & Crafts style house with rendered 2nd storey, dated 1900, most likely by architect W.J. Moore. Regular plan form facing north with a three-storey gabled bay to front elevation, a two-storey gabled projection to west elevation, a two-storey return and modern extensions to rear. The house, divided into two properties since 1968, forms part of a row of 3 pairs of semi-detached houses to the south side of Bloomfield Road. Both properties are accessed from the west elevation fronting onto Woodcut Avenue. Pitched natural slate roof with roll top red-clay ridge tiles, red-clay knob finials and a shared redbrick chimneystack with corbelled coping and red-clay chimney pots. All gables have timber barge boards; half-round uPVC guttering and circular uPVC downpipes used throughout. Redbrick walling is laid to a variation between the English-garden bond and the Scottish bond (four courses of stretchers to one of headers) with projecting plinth course. All window openings are square-headed with stop-chamfer jambs to brick openings on the principal elevations and uPVC top-hung casement windows. The front elevation has a two-storey three-sided canted bay supporting a third storey gabled projection originally with mock timber detail but now rendered; timber brackets, continuous painted sill course, flush painted lintel course and terracotta mouldings. There is a terracotta plaque to the centre of each bay. The west side elevation has a two-storey single bay gabled projection. A segmental-headed door opening facing north with uPVC glazed door and fanlight is approached by two tiled nosed steps and forms the entrance to No 21; a square-headed uPVC half-glazed door paired with a window facing west forms the entrance to No21a. The west elevation has painted sills, flush painted lintels and terracotta mouldings and a terracotta plaque over the main doorcase. The rear elevation has a two-storey redbrick return with pitched natural slate roof, roll top red-clay ridge tiles and a single course of decorative bricks. Two single-storey modern extensions have been added to the rear. East side elevation is abutted by adjoining house No. 23 (HB26/10/001B). A modest front garden is paved and enclosed by a rendered dwarf wall and a painted metal gate. Directly to the rear of the building is an alleyway separating the property from a row of three-storey terraced houses. The terrace forms the end of three terraced streets, facing North East and fronting on to Bloomfield Road near St Donards Church of Ireland (HB26.10.03). Materials: Roof: natural slate Walling: red brick RWG: uPVC Windows: uPVC