282 Tennent Street, Edenderry Gardens, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT13 3GG

282 Tennent Street is a three-storey, single-bay terraced brick house constructed between 1907 and 1909. It forms part of Edenderry Terrace, a residential development built in stages on land that had previously formed part of the Edenderry flax spinning mill complex. The house was designed by the Belfast architectural partnership of Robert Hill and Edwin Kennedy and erected by the Edenderry Spinning Company for occupation by working families displaced from overcrowded shared housing.

The building is an asymmetrical, two-bay, two-storey-with-attic structure facing east onto Tennent Street in the Shankill area of Belfast. It has a rectilinear plan with a two-storey gabled return to the rear, a single-storey lean-to structure, and an internal courtyard. The pitched roof is covered in red clay tiles with roll-moulded red clay ridge tiles and a single replacement brick chimney with small clay pots. A wall-head dormer window serves the attic, pitched to match the main roof, with brick copping and decorative diamond motif above the attic window. A central modern skylight is positioned to the rear roof.

The main façade employs Flemish bonded brick with string courses to ground and first floor windows and decorative clay vents. The principal elevation is two openings wide at ground floor, with a white uPVC front door in a moulded brick camber-arch surround, topped by a deeply projecting flat-roofed timber canopy. To the right is a fully glazed bay window on a brick plinth with a mono-pitched red-tile roof and decorative lead flashing. The first floor features a central, wide segmental-arched surround casement window with offset painted brick sill and lintel; dark horizontal brick bands align with the sill base. The rear walling is English Garden Wall bonded with roughcast to the first floor and includes a central window on both ground and first floors.

The property retains some original features demonstrating Arts and Crafts movement detailing, including the dormer, bay window, roughcast elements, and varied roofline characteristic of early 20th-century terrace housing design. However, the building has suffered incremental inappropriate changes over time. Modern replacements include uPVC rainwater goods and windows throughout (replacing original sashes), and various alterations to doors and windows, particularly to the rear elevations and the former coal shed structure.

The building is located on the western side of Tennent Street between Crumlin and Shankill Roads, adjacent to Crumlin Road Presbyterian Church. It is set back from the street with a small front garden featuring replacement paving, a dwarf wall, and cast-iron gate and railings. A long, narrow garden plot extends to the rear, running west to a boundary wall. The site to the west, formerly occupied by the Edenderry Spinning Mill which operated until 1988, is now a mixed-use business park and apartment complex.

Thomas Coburn is recorded as the first occupant. The house first appears in the 1910 Street Directory as No. 7 Edenderry Gardens but was subsequently renumbered as part of Tennent Street. The Edenderry Spinning Company retained ownership until at least 1972. The building was constructed to accommodate a single family with modern amenities including a rear yard accessed via a front passage, multiple substantial windows on the main elevation, and proper drainage and water supply—a significant improvement over the shared, unsanitary housing that had preceded it in the neighbourhood.