Pavilion, gates and railings, Strandtown Primary School, North Road, Sydenham, Belfast, County Antrim, BT4 3DJ

A red brick gateway and a two-storey red brick pavilion building in neo-Georgian style, built for Strandtown Primary School. The structures date from 1930 and were designed by the Belfast-based English architect R. S. Wilshere.

Gates

The main entrance gateway faces onto the east side of North Road and is constructed in neo-Georgian style from red brick. It consists of two cruciform plan red brick gate piers, panelled to the front (west elevation) with moulded cast stone cornice and plain brick coping to the central part. Pseudo-isodomic rustication runs along the sides of the piers, which are topped by scrolled cast stone copings. The piers support two painted cast-iron gates. Dwarf brick walling with artificial stone coping is topped by square-section cast-iron railings with arrow railing heads, top and bottom rails and plain standards.

Pavilion

The pavilion is a two-storey rectangular plan building with two single-storey wings, located to the west of the school building on the east side of North Road. The structure has a hipped red-clay tile roof with half-round red-clay hip tiles. Overhanging eaves support cast iron ogee guttering discharging to circular section downpipes. Dark toned rustic red brick walling is laid to stretcher-bond.

Windows are square-headed timber casements with clear glazing throughout, unless stated otherwise.

The north elevation is symmetrical, with a two-storey central bay flanked by single-storey wings to east and west. A square-headed door opening to the central bay is flanked by four brick pilasters with artificial stone capitals and bases supporting a flush cast stone string course. The door opening sits within a deep recess and contains a painted metal double door. Three-part windows flank this opening to ground and first floors, with a four-part window to the centre of the first floor. The elevations facing east and west have single windows to the first floor.

Three bays extend to each wing, each with a square-headed door opening containing double-leaf glazed timber doors to the first bay and four-part windows to the remaining bays. The east elevation of the east wing has a circular timber window to the centre, whilst the west elevation of the west wing has a circular timber window to the centre.

The south elevation is symmetrical with a projecting two-storey central bay and single-storey wings to east and west. A square-headed door opening with pedimented moulded timber surround is set to the central bay, flanked by small oval windows to the ground floor. A four-part window occupies the first floor centre. A window appears on each floor to the elevation facing east, and two modern windows are positioned to the first floor of the elevation facing west. Three bays extend to each wing, containing one double and two four-part windows each.

The building is sited within the grounds of Strandtown Primary School, west of the main school buildings. To the north, the front elevation faces onto large football fields, with the front area tarmaced and connecting to the main school lane. A small painted iron gate to the southeast provides access to a rear yard to the south, which is partly tarmaced and partly lawned and enclosed by modern steel fencing on three sides.