99 Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT4 3HW

A two-storey semi-detached sandstone house dating from c.1877 attributed to local architects Young & Mackenzie. L-shaped plan form with a two-storey hipped roof bay to front, single- and two-storey modern extensions to rear. The house is abutted to S by 2 Cyprus Avenue (listed under HB26.14.021 A) and they form a group of two pairs of semi-detached houses with 4 Cyprus Avenue (listed under HB26.14.020 A) and 6 Cyprus Avenue (listed under HB26.14.020 B). The site is situated to the S side of Upper Newtownards Road. Pitched natural slate roof with angled black-clay ridge tiles and projecting eaves. uPVC ogee guttering discharging to circular downpipes. Two rectangular section rendered chimney stacks and a shared chimney stack, all with corbelled coping and red-clay chimney pots. Walling laid to rock-faced random-coursed Scrabo sandstone with chamfered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with flat-arch lintels and painted cills, having original 2/1 to GF and 4/1 double hung timber sashes with ogee horns to FF (unless noted otherwise). West elevation: The principal elevation faces W and consists of a bay to S, a projecting three-sided canted bay immediately to N and a recessed bay to N end. Two windows to GF and one to FF to S bay. Square-headed door opening to N bay with chamfered stone surround and a replacement timber panelled door with 4 pane fanlight. North elevation: The N elevation consists of the side elevation of the canted bay to W, having window openings at GF and FF, a two bay shallow projecting gable with decorative timber bargeboard to projecting bracketted verge; single bay to E with monopitch roof extending down from main roof-line (cat-slide) abutted by a single storey flat-roofed modern extension to E end. uPVC casement window to extension. East elevation: The rear elevation faces E. Although there was no access to the rear, it appears that there is a large modern two-storey hipped-roof extension to NE and a modern flat-roofed extension to SE. South elevation: The S elevation is abutted by 2 Cyprus Avenue (listed under HB26.14.021 A). Setting: The house has a gravelled driveway and a large lawned garden to N and W enclosed by hedge and timber fencing. Painted metal gate to N. Original rectangular carport to north west; pitched slated roof, boarded timber walling, timber soffit and bargeboards; timber panelled door and timber windows; north and west elevations obscured by vegetation. The house is part of a group of two pairs of semi-detached houses including 2 Cyprus Avenue (HB26.14.021 A), 4 Cyprus Avenue (HB26.14.020 A) and 6 Cyprus Avenue (HB26.14.020 B) built on a large site between Cyprus Avenue, Beersbridge Road and Upper Newtwonards Road. Materials: Roof: natural slate to front/ artificial slate and roofing to rear RWG: uPVC Walling: rock-faced, random-coursed Scrabo sandstone Windows: 2/1 to GF/ 4/1 double hung timber sashes to FF