22 Hawthornden Road, Belfast, Co.Antrim, BT4 3JU

22 Hawthornden Road is one of a pair of three-bay, one-and-a-half storey semi-detached Arts and Crafts style cottages, built in 1900. It is attached on its north side to 24 Hawthornden Road. The building has an almost T-shaped plan comprising a main north-south block with returns to the east, and a single storey lean-to on its east-facing side containing the entrance door set back from a gabled return that sits proud of the wall shared with the neighbouring building.

The walls are constructed of red brick with pebble-dashed finish above ground floor cill level. The roof is hipped and gabled, finished with rosemary clay roof tiles and decorated terracotta ridge featuring ball finials to the gable ends and smooth rolled terracotta tiles to the hips. Exposed rafter ends face west. The building has a central red-brick chimneystack that has been rebuilt using part reclaimed and part modern brick, with three clay pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods run throughout. Timber barge-boards appear throughout the building.

The principal elevation faces east and comprises the entrance door in the single-storey lean-to set back from the one-and-a-half-storey gabled return. The lower ground floor walls are constructed in Flemish bond red brick, topped with a projecting string and brick special coping with cyma moulding. Above this is a pebble-dashed finish with a terracotta string course below the first floor window and half-timber effect to the apex of the gable. The entrance door is painted timber set within a shallow arched head with smooth render detail. The ground floor gable window is a tripartite timber sash window, painted, with a central sash of 6 panes over 1 and two side sashes of 4 panes over 1. The painted cill is flush with the wall. A painted paired 6/1 sash window sits to the north bay. The upper floor features an oriel window in the central bay with top-hung timber windows divided into two, with upper sections divided into six panes each. A small flat-roofed dormer with a single casement window, shared with the neighbouring property, sits to the north bay. Ivy obscures some brick detailing to the corners of the central bay.

The south elevation comprises two bays. To the east is a porch with lean-to roof, and to the west a gabled end to the main north-south block. Windows are painted 6/1 timber sliding sash, with one centrally placed and accompanied by a decorated vent above in the apex of the gable, and a smaller 6/1 window set to the east.

The west elevation features original walls to a former yard, sitting forward of the main house and topped with stone coping. A section of wall has been removed and a conservatory added to the north. This elevation is single-storey and contains two windows: a painted timber top-hung window at centre and a painted timber 6/1 sash window to the south. A flat-roofed dormer in three sections to the central hip features a top-hung opening. The north elevation is attached to 24 Hawthornden Road and therefore not fully visible.

The building is located on a level corner site at the junction of Hawthornden Road and Knocklofty Park, on the west side of Hawthornden Road. A modern low brick wall fronts the property with a garden area to the east. The site includes a modern red-brick garage with concrete tiled pitched roof and metal up-and-over door located to the south-west corner, and rear gardens with hedge to the boundary.

The building was constructed by William Pirrie as part of the Ormiston estate.