224 Antrim Road, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT15 2AN

End of terrace two-bay three-storey with attic sandstone former house, built c.1890, with full-height canted bay window and three-storey return, now divided into flats. Terminating a terrace of houses lining the west side of Antrim Road at the junction with Eia Street. Pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles, and set behind slightly raised south gable having raking stone coping on moulded kneeler stones and surmounted by a tall profiled sandstone chimneystack. Lead ridges to the bay with cast metal guttering set on moulded sandstone eaves course and metal downpipes. Random coursed tooled sandstone ashlar walling with painted moulded plinth course, continuous sill course at first floor and frieze below eaves. Square-headed window openings with smooth sandstone ashlar sills and surrounds, having stop-chamfered jambs and broken pediment detail notched in to window head. 1/1 panes to single-pane timber sash windows with slender ogee horns. 'EIA' inscribed on stone head over middle of GF bay window. Two-bay three-storey front (E) elevation with three-storey canted bay and gabled entrance porch to the right. Segmental arch headed door opening with decorative shoulder stones flanked by stop-chamfered piers and corbels supporting squat columns with stiff-leaf capitals and lead-lined stone coping to shallow pediment. Possibly original timber door with diagonally-sheeted panels flanked by side panels and plain fanlight over having etched glazing stating; ‘Society of St. Vincent de Paul’. Door opens onto stone platform and two nosed stone steps flanked by painted stone plinth walls. Small front area enclosed by iron railings set on stone plinth wall with matching gates. Two-bay gabled south side elevation is extended by a further four windows as a lower three-storey return. A pair of diminutive round-headed windows occupy the gable at attic storey. Side elevation also has a small area enclosed by railing as per above. Rear (W) elevation abutted by three-storey return having a stepped rear gable built in red brick laid in English garden wall bond and having uPVC windows. N side elevation abutted by adjoining three-storey red brick building. Roof: Natural slate RWG : Cast-iron Walling Tooled sandstone with ashlar sandstone dressings. Windows: Timber sash to front and gable / uPVC to rear Setting: Terminating a terrace of houses lining the west side of Antrim Road with south gable and return fronting onto Eia Street. Small rear yard enclosed by tall rendered wall.