9 Sandown Park, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT5 6GU

Exterior Description and Setting: Semi-detached two-bay, two-storey with attic asymmetrical Tudor-Revival brick and render building on ‘L-shaped’ plan built 1897, having three-storey entrance bay with projecting canted gable to south-east and projecting ground floor to south. Three-storey rear extension to north built c.2000. Building now forms part of an apartment complex ‘Sandown Court’ along with 82 Sandown Road (HB26/14/002A) adjoining. The building is located to the north of Sandown Road and overlooks Sandown Park, which is now a private road. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends. Ogee moulded metal guttering and circular downpipes. Pyramidal hipped roof over entrance bay with weather vane finial. Painted bargeboard to projecting gable. Hipped slate roof to south and west dormers with leaded ridge. Projecting two-stage chamfered brick central chimney stack adjoining 82 Sandown Road (HB.26.14.002A) having corbelled eaves to flat coping with octagonal terracotta chimney pots. Decorative fluted and chamfered chimney stack to east. Segment-headed and square-headed windows throughout with one over one timber sliding sash windows, unless otherwise stated. South elevation: Red brick ground floor on rock-faced squared and snecked sandstone plinth with smooth rendered first floor having red brick quoins. Projecting smooth sandstone sill course to ground floor and red brick course to first floor. Ovolo brick mould with dentils to first floor string course. Painted timber boarding to second floor of projecting gable with smooth rendered inset. Niche to ground floor. Square-headed ground and second floor windows with smooth sandstone lintel. Segment-headed windows openings to first and second floor. Casement windows to dormer and second floor of projecting gable. Mono-pitch roof to ground floor bay with dentil brick eaves course. East elevation: Single bay elevation with projecting chimney breasts at ground floor rising to single red-brick stepped stack terminating in wide fluted chimney as before; decorative terracotta panel to round-arched niche. West elevation is attached to 82 Sandown Road (HB.26.14.002A). North extension: Rough-cast rendered walls on cement plinth course with brick ovolo moulding, brick quoins and string course to first floor. Square-headed openings with brick headers and concrete sills. Timber casement windows. Setting: The building is attached to 82 Sandown Road (HB.26.14.002A) and forms an apartment complex which is located within its own grounds with tarmac parking to south and west, pathways and lawn to north and east with boundary fence. Tree-lined and hedge boundary to south along private road to Sandown Park and west to Sandown Road. Square brick pillars to metal entrance gates. Materials: Roof: Slate RWG: Metal painted Walls Red brick and render Windows : Replacement double-glazed timber sliding sash and timber casements to the rear.