368 Beersbridge Road, Belfast, County Antrim, BT5 5DZ

No. 368 Beersbridge Road is a semi-detached two-storey stone cottage built in 1880, most likely designed by the prominent Belfast architectural firm Young & Mackenzie. The building forms part of a row of three pairs of semi-detached cottages constructed to the north of Beersbridge Road as part of Belfast's easterly expansion during the late-Victorian period.

The cottage is constructed of un-coursed rock-faced Scrabo sandstone with a cut stone plinth course. It features a half-hipped natural slate roof with projecting eaves, original redbrick chimneystacks to the west and a shared redbrick chimneystack to the east with corbelled coping and red-clay chimney pots. The roof has exposed rafters and purlins to the west side, angled red-clay hip-tiles, and is fitted with bracketed half-round cast-iron guttering and circular cast-iron downpipes.

The front elevation, facing south, is arranged in two asymmetrical bays. Each bay contains a square-headed ground floor window and a flat-headed dormer window (lucarne) with natural slate roof. The square-headed window openings are topped with discharging arches over the lintels and contain original 1/1 double hung sash windows with ogee horns, set within stone dressings on painted sills. Both ground and first floor openings to the east bay consist of paired double hung sash windows. A continuous cut stone sill runs across the first floor.

The west side elevation features decorative timber barge boards and a projecting entrance canopy with a natural slate hipped roof supported by timber brackets, fitted with half-round cast-iron guttering and circular cast-iron downpipes. The entrance, recessed and facing west, opens onto two tiled steps and has a replacement half-glazed timber panelled front door with brass door furniture and small fanlight. A cast iron boot scraper is built into a small arched recess in the wall to the right of the entrance. The square-headed window openings on this elevation have painted jambs to match the painted sill. The west side elevation is abutted by a stone wall constructed of un-coursed rock-faced Scrabo sandstone with cut stone plinth course and cut-stone capping, featuring a square-headed door opening with a sheeted timber door.

The east side elevation is attached to the adjoining house No. 370. The rear appears to have a single storey extension beyond the stone yard wall, and two rebuilt dormer windows similar to those in adjoining buildings, though rear access was not granted during survey.

The front elevation features a part paved, concrete and gravelled driveway and lawned garden enclosed by timber fencing, accessed by a cast iron gate.

The original external fabric and detailing survive largely intact, and the building has retained its character, style and proportions. In 1985–86 two replacement dormer windows were constructed to the rear of the dwelling. The building has group value with the adjacent row of semi-detached houses to the north of Beersbridge Road, all listed under HB26/10/002 B & D–F.

Nos. 364–374 Beersbridge Road were constructed in 1880 for the Bloomfield Land & Building Co. Ltd., a company formed by the landowning Boyd family in 1874 to secure building leases in the East Belfast townlands of Ballyhackamore and Ballycloughan. The cottages are remarkably similar in design to other Young & Mackenzie cottages built on Beersbridge Road in 1878–1880, though nos. 364–374 are more impressive, possessing additional dormer windows and Scrabo sandstone facades rather than redbrick.

No. 368 was first recorded in valuation sources in 1880 with a rateable value of £15 and was also known as 'Rose Hill Cottage'. The first recorded occupant was James King. By 1911, the property was occupied by John Miller, a clerk in the local shipyards. The census return of that year described the building as a second-class dwelling consisting of six rooms. By 1930 the rateable value had decreased only slightly to £14 10s., but under the First Revaluation in 1935 it rose to £28, remaining at that level through the Second Revaluation (1956–72). The building was listed in 1984.