1 Stormont Cottages, Stormont Estate, Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast, County Antrim, BT4 3XX

Semi-detached two-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1936. L-shaped on plan facing south and located on the south side of a short bitmac avenue to the south of Massey Avenue within the Stormont Estate. Half-hipped natural slate roof with gauged slates, roll-moulded lead ridges and two tall profiled red brick chimneystacks (that to the east shared with adjoining house). Moulded cast-iron guttering supported on deeply overhanging timber sheeted eaves with exposed rafter feet and cast-iron downpipes. Painted rough-cast rendered walling with painted brick below ground floor sill course. Square-headed window openings with painted shaped brick courses and original steel casement windows. Garden front elevation is three windows wide with a three-sided canted bay window to the left having concrete coping to parapet. West side elevation has an original entrance porch with steep slate roof and a square-headed door opening to the north side with original timber panelled door, glazed to the upper six panels. Rear elevation is three windows wide with a flat-roofed single-storey extension to the left. East side elevation abutted by adjoining house No.2 (HB26/13/043B). Setting: Located within the Stormont Estate just south of Massey Avenue gate lodge accessed via short bitmac avenue. Small enclosed rear yard; painted rough-cast render boundary walling with red-brick coping extending from gable with arched opening and painted timber gate; tall painted rough-cast render gate piers with red-brick cappings and painted timber gates and hedging fronting onto the avenue. Large garden to the south elevation. Roof: Natural slate RWG: Cast-iron Walling: Painted rough-cast render / red brick Windows: Original steel casement