50 Wellington Park, Belfast, BT9 6DL

50 Wellington Park is one of a pair of mid-terrace, two-storey houses with attic, built in red brick in the Queen Anne style. Designed by architect James J. McDonnell in 1900 and constructed in 1903, it sits on the south-west side of Wellington Park between the Lisburn Road and Malone Road, within the Malone Conservation area.

The front north-east elevation is asymmetrical, built in Flemish bond brick with a distinctive two-storey curved bay window on the left side topped with a half-domed ogee lead roof. Corbelled brick detailing runs beneath the window cills. The roof is pitched natural slate with black clay ridge tiles, punctuated by a prominent brick chimney on the left side (shared with the adjoining No. 48 Wellington Park). Replacement metal guttering sits above projecting corbelled brick eaves; a circular metal downpipe is positioned on the right side.

All openings on the ground and first floor levels of the front elevation have wavy painted stone heads. The original five-panel bolection moulded timber door with original ironmongery is accessed via four steps. A single window opening on the first floor aligns with the door below. The attic level features a flat-roofed, wide dormer with multipane timber windows and a twentieth-century rooflight to the right side.

All windows to the front elevation are original 1/1 timber sliding sash with single-glazing, the upper panes featuring margin panes, except the front dormer window which is multipane. Rear windows are a mixture of 1/1 timber sliding sash and replacement uPVC windows.

The north-west gable elevation is fully abutted by No. 52 Wellington Park, and the south-east gable by No. 48 Wellington Park.

The rear south-west elevation is complex. The main block's rear has painted render at ground floor level with replacement double timber doors opening onto a yard. Single window openings face both first and attic levels, featuring brick voussoir heads. The attic window sits within a wall-head dormer with pitched roof, timber fascia and soffit with exposed rafter ends. Two twentieth-century rooflights pierce the rear roof slope. A three-storey return wing in English Garden Wall Bond abuts the left side, further extended towards the south-west by a two-storey extension built circa 2000. The return's south-east face has an asymmetric arrangement of replacement uPVC windows in painted render at ground floor level, with uPVC patio doors opening into the yard. The south-west gable of the return is abutted at ground and first floor levels by the painted rendered extension, which has uPVC patio doors on both levels and a balcony access from the second floor onto a flat roof. The north-west face of the extension is blank.

The property sits within a built-up urban setting lined by mature trees. The front boundary is defined by tall, narrow brick piers with stone caps and twentieth-century gates. A widened front access allows off-street parking where the former dwarf wall was removed. The rear comprises a narrow yard with a wider amenity space beyond and access to a rear alley.

Materials include a natural slate roof (with artificial slate to the rear return), red brick throughout the walls (painted at ground level to the rear), cast metal rainwater goods, and PVC soil pipes to the rear. Extensive modern alterations and prolific use of PVC mean the building does not merit detailed conservation survey.