114 Marlborough Park Central, Belfast, BT9 6HP

An asymmetrical, detached, three-bay, two-storey house, built c.1917, located on the south side of Marlborough Park Central in South Belfast at the East end of the street adjacent to Nos 110 & 112 which are of a similar style. The building is rectangular on plan, without abutments. Pitched, slightly overhanging, natural slate roof with angled ridge tiles and red brick corbelled chimneystacks to each gable, having dentil detailing and cannon-head clay pots (west chimneystack rebuilt). Cast aluminium ogee gutters mounted on painted timber fascia with PVC downpipes. Walling is painted wet-dash. Camber-headed window openings with plain reveals and painted masonry cills, having transomed and mullioned original casement windows. Principal elevation faces north, and is irregularly arranged, with tripartite casements to left side and ground floor right, and bipartite windows to first floor centre and right; lintel and cill heights are varied. Principal entrance is located to right of centre, set in a segmental opening having floating concrete canopy on chamfered concrete brackets and original timber door with a sixteen-light obscure-glazed cilled upper panel over three vertical bolection moulded panels; it is flanked to right side by a margined leaded sidelight with painted masonry cill. East gable is blank. West gable has a bipartite window to ground floor on left side, tripartite window to centre of ground floor and another bipartite to right side. Two bipartite windows to first floor at right side. The rear (south) elevation has two doors to left side; one on right of pair is an original sheeted door with obscured glazed upper panels (formerly leading to a store), the other door on left is a late twentieth-century replacement with original plain glazed sidelight. There are tripartite windows at each floor to right side only, and a small WC window to right of centre at first floor. Large blank area to left of WC window. Setting: The house is located at the East end of Marlborough Park Central, set back from the street within its own grounds, adjacent to Nos 110 & 112, a pair of semi-detached houses of similar style, but otherwise within a mix of houses of different styles and eras. There is a garden to front bounded by a low wall and mature hedge leading out from a vehicle entrance on to a tarmac footpath; the rear garden is bounded by a mature hedge. Materials Roof- Natural slate RWG- Guttering - cast aluminium / Downpipes - PVC Walls- Painted pebble-dash Windows- Painted timber casements