290 Tennent Street, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT13 3GG

An asymmetrical, two-bay, two-storey-with-attic terraced brick house constructed between 1907 and 1909, located on the west side of Tennent Street in the Shankill area of Belfast. The building faces east and is rectilinear on plan, with a two-storey gabled return to the rear, a single-storey lean-to structure, and an internal yard.

The pitched roof is covered in red clay tiles with roll-moulded red clay ridge tiles. A single brick chimney with moulded detail on the principal face carries tall clay pots with rosette motif. A timber-framed dormer window serves the attic, with clay tile cheeks and a central skylight with glazing bar to the rear roof. Half-round cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative box hopper remain to the right of the main elevation; the remainder have been replaced with uPVC.

The ground floor walling is Flemish bonded brick, with painted roughcast render to the first floor. The canted bay-window has a brick plinth. The rear is constructed in English Garden Wall bonded brick with roughcast render to the first floor elevation and decorative terracotta vents throughout.

Windows are a combination of timber sash and casement types with flat arch heads and offset brick sills, some with concrete replacements to the rear. The principal elevation is two openings wide at ground floor, with a replacement timber front door featuring glazing bars. The door surround is a segmental-arch chamfered rebated frame, surmounted by a flat-roof timber canopy supported on a timber bracket. The canted bay-window to the right contains three vertical sliding sash windows beneath a re-covered hipped roof. A central timber casement window is flanked by timber sheeted external shutters.

The south elevation is abutted by a listed building. The rear (west) elevation features a two-storey pitched-roof return to the right; the south cheek is blank. The west gable has a central replacement uPVC window to the first floor. A lean-to single-storey brick and slated structure, formerly a coal shed, occupies the ground floor; it has been re-roofed and partially rebuilt with a window inserted to the west. The rear wall extends north to form a boundary wall to the internal yard, with a timber sheeted and braced door providing access. The principal rear elevation has central windows at ground and first floor levels, with roughcast to the first floor and an attic window to the left side above the return. The north elevation is abutted by the adjoining terrace.

The building is located in an urban setting between Crumlin and Shankill Roads. A small, newly paved garden with a rebuilt half-height brick wall and cast-iron gate fronts the property along Tennent Street. A long, narrow garden plot extends to the rear, running west to the boundary wall. A paved walkway runs along the rear of all properties in the terrace, between garden plots and building rears, but has been sealed with locked gates to the south. A mixed-use business park and apartment complex, built on the site of the former Edenderry Spinning Mill, stands to the west. Crumlin Road Presbyterian Church is located to the north-east on the corner of Crumlin Road and Tennent Street.