278 Tennent Street, Edenderry Gardens, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT13 3GG

An asymmetrical, two-bay two-storey-with-attic terraced brick house built 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 in plan, with a two-storey gabled return to the west and a single-storey lean-to structure also to the west, with an internal yard to the rear.

The pitched red tile roof features roll-moulded red clay ridge tiles and a single brick chimney with heavy bands, topped with tall clay pots decorated with rosette motifs. A wall-head dormer to the right (formed as a complete dormer with the adjoining terrace) contains an attic window with a half-hipped roof and decorative timber bargeboard. A central replacement skylight sits on the rear roof. Rainwater goods are uPVC with a decorative box hopper and cast iron downpipe on the main elevation.

The walling is Flemish bonded brick, with English Garden Wall bonding to the rear and roughcast render to first floor levels. Decorative terracotta vents appear on the main façade and rear. Windows are uPVC replacements with offset brick sills and flat arch heads. The principal elevation presents two openings at ground floor level. The front door is uPVC with a moulded brick surround featuring a camber arch with egg-and-dart motif, surmounted by a deeply projecting flat-roofed timber canopy. A fully glazed canted bay window to the right sits over a brick plinth, topped with a red-tile roof, decorative lead flashing, and stepped brick moulding. A central window at first floor level has a small roughcast canopy above.

The south elevation is abutted by the adjoining terrace. The rear west elevation features a two-storey pitched-roof return to the right, with a blank south cheek; the west gable has a central window at first floor. A single-storey rear boundary wall abuts the west gable of the return, extends west then north at a downward slope, continues horizontally, and abuts to the neighbouring terrace to the north, with a doorway to the yard featuring a sheeted and braced door. The original slated roof of the lean-to is retained between the gable of the return and the yard wall. The principal rear elevation has a central first-floor window with roughcast rendering and an attic window to the left above the return. The north elevation is abutted by the adjoining terrace.

The setting sits on the western side of Tennent Street between Crumlin and Shankill Roads. A small garden at the front combines concrete flags and tiles, with a replacement half-height brick wall and cast-iron gate along Tennent Street. A long, narrow garden plot runs west from the house to the boundary wall. A paved walkway extends along the rear of all properties in the terrace, though it has been sealed with locked gates to the south. The former Edenderry Spinning Mill site to the west now hosts a mixed-use business park and apartment complex. Crumlin Road Presbyterian Church stands to the north-east on the corner of Crumlin Road and Tennent Street.