John White Memorial Congregational Church Hall, Tennent Street, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT13 3GD

A three-bay two-storey red-brick church hall built in 1896 to designs by Thomas McCaul and located to the south side of Matchett Street in North Belfast. Square on plan. Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on corbelled red-brick eaves. Walling is English garden wall-bonded red-brick on a concrete plinth with dog-tooth string-course between floors and under eaves (punctuated between floors by a lozenge-shaped terracotta panel); red-brick string-course with egg-and-dart frieze and painted concrete lintel above ground floor openings of entrance bay; cement render to south. Replacement fixed timber-framed windows in plain brick reveals with red-brick voussoirs and projecting painted concrete sills; Venetian-style window to first floor of entrance bay surmounted by a cogged brick hood mould, having continuous sill on red-brick corbels with dog-tooth frieze. The principal elevation faces north and is almost symmetrically arranged with corner pilasters to north; gabled entrance bay to centre rises above eaves line and is flanked by brick pilasters with moulded concrete or corbelled brick heads. Venetian-style window to first floor over double-panel timber-sheeted doors surmounted by a large four-paned transom light and a window at right. Left and right bays each have window at first floor and two at ground floor; those to ground floor left are partially infilled with brick and surmounted by a chamfered sandstone lintel and red-brick relieving arch. The east gable has four windows to first floor and five at ground floor; roundel with yellow-brick keyblocks to apex of gable. The south elevation was partially concealed (see surveyor’s comments); window to first floor centre. The west elevation is abutted by the adjoining church (HB26/36/008A). Setting Situated in a residential area to the south side of Matchett Street, abutting John White Memorial Congregational Church (HB26/36/008A) to west. To rear of building is a modern red-brick single-storey church hall. Car park to rear accessed from Matchett Street via modern metal gates on square concrete piers. Roof: Natural slate Walling: brick Windows: timber RWG: Cast-iron