Stormont House, Stormont Estate, Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast, County Antrim, BT4 3XX

Symmetrical detached multi-bay two-storey with attic brick and stone former house, dated 1926, to the designs of Ralph Knott. Located on the grounds of Stormont Estate to the southeast of Parliament buildings on its own mature site with a large single-storey flat-roofed wing attached to the east, built c.1975. Hipped terracotta tiled roofs with large profiled brick and cast cement chimneystacks, terracotta ridge tiles and lead-lined dormer windows. Cast-iron rainwater goods with a single decorative box hopper having raised digits; ‘1926’. Machine-made red brick walling laid in English garden wall bond with cement pointing and a lead-lined continuous brick plat band at first floor sill level. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with bipartite and tripartite multi-pane timber casement windows and multi-pane French doors. Symmetrical principal north elevation is five windows wide with advanced end bays and a central square-plan entrance porch housing an elaborate pedimented carved stone doorcase. Flat-roofed entrance porch has double-leaf timber doors with a single decorative raised-and-fielded panel to each leaf, a rectangular fanlight with decorative glazing bars and a carved stone surround. Deep stone architrave surround is surmounted by a segmental pediment supported on scrolled console brackets in turn surmounted by a decorative ball finial and swags. East side elevation is abutted by a lower two-storey section and a later flat-roofed single-storey extension. This section is also abutted by a flat-roofed glazed wing, built c.1975. Symmetrical south garden elevation is nine windows wide with a central flat-roofed entrance bay. French doors to the entire ground floor with stepped keystones. The bay comprises a tripartite arrangement of multi-pane timber French doors with stone columns having stylised capitals, elaborately carved stone overpanels and a continous fluted entablature. West side elevation is abutted by a lower two-storey section with a square-headed door opening having a replacement timber panelled door and a painted Doric portico. Roof Terracotta tiles RWG Cast-iron Walling Red brick Windows Timber casement Setting: Located on a mature site to the southeast of Parliament buildings (HB26.13.013) surrounded by steel security fencing. Bitmac front driveway with modern security cabin to the northwest. Stepped stone paved rear terrace enclosed to the rear garden by rough-hewn sandstone wall.