Willowfield Parish Hall, Cregagh Road, Belfast, County Antrim, BT6 8PZ

Detached gable-fronted redbrick parish hall, built c.1910, to the designs of W.J. Fennell, with gabled entrance porch and pair of gabled projections to the rear. Rectangular on plan facing east and located on the west side of Cregagh Road within the grounds of Harding Memorial School (HB26/04/001A). Pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded terracotta ridge tiles, ogee-moulded cast-iron guttering to shaped rafter feet and cast-iron downpipes. Plain timber barge board to all gables with a terracotta finial to the front gable and applied timber framing having a timber tie-beam having inscribed lettering stating; 'WILLOWFIELD PARISH HALL'. Redbrick walling laid in English garden wall bond with projecting redbrick plinth course. Square-headed window openings to side elevations with moulded redbrick reveals, stone lintels, flush splayed stone sills and 2/2 timber sash windows with top-hung overlights. Front east gable abutted by smaller gabled entrance porch having natural slate roof and lateral redbrick buttresses with sandstone offsets. The porch is lit by a group of four pointed-arched window openings formed in moulded sandstone with leaded coloured glazing in the Art nouveau style. Pointed-arched door opening to the north cheek with sandstone head having double-leaf vertically-sheeted timber doors and overpanel opening onto three concrete steps. South side elevation has five buttress-like piers with sandstone offsets below eaves level and a pair of square-headed window openings with multi-pane steel casement windows. Rear elevation abutted by a lower gabled entrance porch in turn abutted by a lower gabled section. Each section has replacement timber doors. North side elevation is four windows wide (now boarded up) each flanked by redbrick buttresses having sandstone offsets. Setting: Occupying a modest site on the west side of Cregagh Road with its south elevation fronting onto a small lane and its north elevation fronting onto Dromore Street, with bitmac playing areas to the rear and north. The site is enclosed to the street by iron railings on low plinth wall with matching pedestrian gates supported on octagonal-plan redbrick and sandstone piers, while the side elevations are enclosed by redbrick walling and modern fence. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Redbrick Windows Timber sash