26 Sans Souci Park, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT9 8BZ

This large two-and-a-half-storey Free Style villa was built in 1910, designed by architect James A. Hanna, and sits to the south-east of the curving Sans Souci Park off Belfast's Malone Road. It is constructed in red brick, and its once-substantial garden has been encroached upon to the south by modern apartment blocks built in recent years for student accommodation. To the west stand some mature trees.

The south-facing front façade is asymmetrical. Roughly at the centre of the ground floor is the main entrance, with a timber-sheeted door fitted with decorative hinges. The doorway is flanked by sidelights and topped by a fanlight, both composed of small leaded lights, the whole assembly forming a segmental arch head to the opening. The arch has a painted voussoir moulding with a keystone.

To the left of the entrance, projecting from the south-west corner of the building, is a large four-sided single-storey flat-roofed bay. Each face of this bay contains a large mullioned and transomed window, with a painted lintel course above. The flat roof has an overhang.

To the immediate right of the entrance is a two-and-a-half to three-storey bay with a vaguely Flemish gable. At ground-floor level this bay projects as a large semicircular bay window with a flat overhanging roof and a large mullioned and transomed window. Directly above, at first-floor level, is a large multi-pane casement window with a shallow segmental arch head. Above this is a smaller Palladian window, also with multiple panes. Most windows throughout the building share similar frames and segmental arch heads. A narrow fire escape ladder runs up the right-hand side of the first- and second-floor windows on this bay.

At first-floor level to the left and centre of the front façade are two windows similar in character to the one on the first floor of the bay described above.

The west gabled façade has a small flat-roofed projecting porch to the lower left, which does not appear to be original. This porch has a panelled and glazed door to its north face and a small window to its west face. Immediately to the left of the porch, set directly below the overlap of the porch roof, is a small flat-headed window with leaded lights. To the left of this is a narrow window in the same style as those on the first floor of the front. Directly above the porch is a very large six-light stairwell window with painted mullions and transom and many small leaded panes to each light, set under a flat arch head. To the immediate right of the porch is a small window, with a much larger window directly above at first-floor level and another at second-floor level. A projecting chimney breast sits to the right of these windows, beyond which is the four-sided corner bay described above.

The left-hand edge of the west façade merges with the west face of a large two-storey gabled return. On the ground floor of this return is a narrowish window in the style of the first-floor front windows. At first-floor level, centrally positioned, is a small three-sided oriel window glazed on all sides, with multi-pane frames and casement openings to the outer sides, supported on two painted brackets.

The east gabled façade has a metal-framed glazed doorway at ground-floor centre, which is a later insertion, with a concrete lintel. To its right is a large window as seen at first-floor level on the front. At the centre of the first floor is a similar but smaller window. To its right is a large flat-headed corner window featuring a New Art corner column, a painted lintel, and casement frames as elsewhere. At second-floor level is an off-centre pair of square windows with frames and painted lintels consistent with the rest of the building. To the right-hand, north side, the east façade merges with a high wall that continues northwards then turns westward to enclose a yard.

The north elevation consists of the rear façade of the main house to the left and the gable of the return to the right. The ground floor of the main rear façade is blank. At first-floor level to the left, the corner window described on the east façade continues around. The gable of the return has two windows at ground-floor level, much like those on the first floor of the front but each with a projecting course above, and another similar window at second-floor or attic level. A chimney stack rises from the gable edge immediately to the right of this upper window. A fire escape ladder runs up the gable, as on the front. The east façade of the return has two first-floor windows in the same general manner as elsewhere, though the left one is noticeably small. At ground-floor level there is a pair of small windows to the left.

The main roof is gabled with a slight overhang and exposed rafter ends. All roof sections are covered in Bangor blue slate with red clay ridge tiles. At the intersection of the main roof and the roof of the return, on the rear elevation, is a flat-roofed slate-clad dormer with a multi-pane casement window. On the front elevation there is a small centrally placed flat-roofed dormer with a single-pane frame. Cast iron rainwater goods are fitted throughout.

Attached to the east-facing yard wall is a lean-to garage with a large timber-sheeted door to its north face and metal-framed windows to its south and east faces. To the east of this garage is a large two-level outbuilding, also in brick, with a slated hipped roof, a tall chimney, and windows to the south. A large lean-to garage has been attached to its north side, and there is a red brick lean-to with metal-framed windows on its west face. A greenhouse formerly stood to the south of this outbuilding but has since been demolished.

The house was built in 1910 for Acheson Glendinning, on land his family had acquired in 1905 for £490. It was designed by James A. Hanna and originally appears to have been called Glendara, later known as Bran Drum. During the Second World War the building served for a period as a National Fire Service station. In March 1945 it was sold to Mr. David Andrews for £3,900, who in turn sold it to Queen's University in October 1964. The university converted it to a student hall of residence, a use it retained until the late 1990s, after which it stood vacant for a period before apparently being brought back into use as a student residence.

Many of the original fireplaces were replaced, probably in the 1930s or 1940s. The side porch on the west façade was likely added around the same time. The large outbuilding to the east is said to have originally been built as a stable, though this seems unusual for a house of 1910, and its chimney stack, if original, suggests it may have served a different purpose.