Caretakers House, Elmgrove Primary School, Beersbridge Road, Belfast, County Antrim, BT5 4RS

A two-storey pyramidal roof red brick house dating from 1936 to designs by the Belfast-based English architect R. S. Wilshere, built as the caretaker’s House to Elmgrove Primary School (listed under HB26.05.002 A). Square plan with a small attached timber outbuilding (boiler house) to E. The house is located to the S side of Beersbridge road, NW of the Elmgrove Primary School buildings. Pyramidal red-clay tile roof with overhanging eaves. Half-round aluminum guttering discharging to circular aluminum downpipes. Tall red brick chimney stack with corbelled coping and clay chimney pots. Rustic red brick walling laid to stretcher-bond with a double chamfered plinth course. Original six-paned square-headed timber casement windows with clear glazing (unless stated otherwise). Painted concrete cills to main windows with brick stretcher course to heads with double row of clay tiles over forming hood. The principal elevation is symmetrical and faces N. Single storey flat roofed projecting porch to centre with chamfered corners and a recessed round arched door opening. A replacement glazed timber door opens onto two nosed steps. Narrow three pane windows with frosted glazing to either side to GF and a window above the entrance door to FF to centre. GF windows have clay tile cill and vertically laid tiles forming flat-arched head. The three-bay E elevation is dominated by the projecting chimney to central bay. The N bay has a single six-pane casement window with frosted glazing to GF and double casement window to FF above. Attached single storey timber outbuilding to the N bay adjacent to the projecting chimney. Narrow three pane window with top opening light having frosted glazing, clay tile cill and head, as before, to S bay. The S elevation has a four-part window to GF and a three-part window to FF. The W elevation has two bays. Single windows to GF and FF to S bay. Square-headed door opening to N bay with a modern sheeted timber door and a double window to FF above. Setting: The Caretaker’s House is located to the S side of Beersbridge road, NW of Elmgrove Primary School (listed under HB26.05.002 A). The site includes a grassed yard with a tarmaced pathway to the front of the house (N side) and a spacious garden to the rear (S side). The property is built on a slightly elevated site; four steps to the front garden. The rear garden is separated from the front yard by a brick wall to W and a timber fence with sheeted gate to E of the house. Modestly landscaped garden to rear with timber deck to NW leading to the rear door. Wooden shed to NE. The site is enclosed by a low brick wall topped by simple wrought-iron railings with arrow head railing tops and situated on Beersbridge Road. It is accessed through a simple wrought-iron gate. Brick walling to W, metal railings and hedges to E and S. Materials: Roof red clay tiles RWG aluminum Walling red brick Windows original timber casements