14 Sunnyside St., Belfast

14 Sunnyside Street is a two-storey red-brick terraced house built in 1903, located on the south side of Sunnyside Street approximately 3 kilometres from Belfast city centre. It forms part of a longer terrace of 21 similar houses (numbered 14-52), though the buildings were developed in phases: numbers 14-24 appear on the Ordnance Survey map of 1903 and were recorded in the valuation book that year, numbers 26-42 were entered the following year, and numbers 44-52 were first noted in 1910. The developer of numbers 14-42 was Hugh Scott, listed as lessor in 1906, though the architect remains unknown.

The house is rectangular in plan with a single-storey L-shaped flat-roofed return. The main structure is built in smooth red clay brick laid in English Garden Wall bond, with a natural slate roof. The front elevation faces north and features a painted timber four-panel door to the left with a semi-circular head and moulded architrave, and a 1/1 top-hung uPVC window to the right with a segmental head and moulded architrave. A smaller similar window is positioned on the first floor. A projecting moulded brick course supports ogee guttering. The roof has a replacement red brick chimney stack on the right-hand side with two projecting brick courses. The rear elevation faces south and includes a first-floor 1/1 top-hung uPVC window to the left and a fixed-pane uPVC window to the staircase landing on the right. A flat-roofed extension was constructed around 2002 in rustic red clay brick with uPVC top-hung windows and thin concrete sills. The side elevation to the east is blank and adjoins the side lane; the west elevation abuts number 16 Sunnyside Street.

The front garden is finished in concrete block paviors behind a replacement red brick wall with decorative railings and gate. The boundary treatment and new front doors were installed around 1988 as part of an improvement scheme for the entire terrace.

The windows throughout have been replaced with top-hung uPVC, and the rainwater goods are also uPVC. Despite these alterations and the rear extension, the building retains its external character and has considerable group value within the terrace as a good example of modest Edwardian urban terraced housing, built during Belfast's rapid southward expansion from the city centre along main thoroughfares including the Ormeau, Lisburn, and Malone Roads.

The first recorded occupant was Joseph Lewis, followed by Hugh Jelly, listed in directories as a van driver, by 1907. The 1911 census recorded the building as a second-class dwelling with five rooms, occupied by Hugh Jelly, his wife Mary, and their six children. A family member remained in the house into 1995. A kitchen extension was added to the return in 1993.