32 Station Road, Sydenham, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT4 1RF

A mid-Victorian gabled two-storey red-brick house dating from c.1865. Rectangular plan form with a single storey bay window to N. The house occupies the E end of a three-part terrace (listed under HB26.09.001 A-C) to the S side of Station Road, accessed through Inglewood Court. Pitched natural slate roof with angled black-clay ridge tiles. Decorated timber barge boards to N gable. Dentilled cornicing supports ogee cast iron guttering discharging to circular downpipes to N elevation. Two red brick chimney stacks with buff brick dressings, corbelled coping and clay chimney pots. Rustic red brick walling to Flemish bond with buff brick quoins and projecting plinth, now rendered. Square-headed window openings with flat relieving arches and painted cills having double hung original timber sashes with ogee horns (unless otherwise noted), 1/1 pane to GF and 2/2 horizontal panes to FF. The three-bay wide principal elevation faces E. Square-headed door opening to centre with painted architrave and moulded hood supported on floriated brackets. Either side of the entrance step, there is a low stone wall with rounded top. Timber panelled door with fanlight opening onto a single step. The door opening is flanked by a square-headed window to each side. A window to each bay to FF. The N elevation is gabled and has a single-storey bay window to GF and a window to FF. The W elevation is abutted by the neighbouring property 34 Station Road (listed under HB26.09.001 B). Although no access was granted, the rear elevation facing S is rendered and appears to have a shallow projecting two-storey gabled return to E and-a two-storey lean-to extension to W. Setting: Graveled driveway and a modest landscaped garden to N of the site shared by the terrace. The driveway continues to E leading to a modern single storey pitched roof garage at the SE end of the site. The site is enclosed to N, facing Station Road, by a hedge. Curved red brick dwarf walling ending in plain square section piers forms the main driveway to Inglewood Court and serves as the main entrance to the site. An iron gate survives to the NE end of the site onto Station Road, now partially covered by the hedge. The gate is supported on simple rectangular section piers and has a small iron plaque with the name ‘Sandringham’ engraved (the original name of the houses as noted in the Historical Information). The rear yard is enclosed by a red brick wall with a square headed sheeted timber door. A modern two-storey red-brick housing development is constructed to the S of the site accessed through Inglewood Court. Materials: Roof: natural slate RWG: cast iron Walling : red brick Windows: timber sash windows