63 University Road, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT7 1NF

Relatively low proportioned, three storey late Georgian style terrace ‘house’ of 1840-41, with stucco façade and decorative doorcase, one of a matching group of four all now divided into flats with stairwell returns to the rear. The terrace to which the property belongs (originally named ‘Botanic View’) is situated on the W side of University Road, with Camden Street to the north and Fitzwilliam Street to the south, and consists of this property, its two identical neighbours, four similar but taller three storey houses of c.1840-43, (now also converted to flats), and a short two storey brick grouping of 1852 to the south end (now flats and offices). No.63 is situated roughly to the S of centre of the terrace. The front (E facing) façade is asymmetrical. To the left on the ground floor is the original entrance doorway. This is no longer used as the flats are accessed from the rear stairwell return. The ‘doorway’ consists of traditional style panelled and glazed ‘door’ which in fact acts as a window. Above the ‘door’ is a plain rectangular fanlight, with the whole ensemble encased with plain pilasters with decorative console brackets supporting a cornice hood with tympanum-like blocking course over. To the right of the ‘doorway’ are two flat arch windows with Georgian-paned sash frames (both 6/6). To the first floor (and spread more widely apart than the ground floor windows) are two more windows, as before but marginally larger looking. There are two similar but shorter, (6/3), windows to the second floor- in line with those to first floor. The front façade is finished in plain render with simple moulded surrounds to the windows. The render is painted, with the window surrounds (and doorcase) in a darker shade than the rest. To the ground floor of the rear façade there are two Georgian-paned sash windows to each floor, with those to left on each floor narrower and those two to the second floor shorter than the rest. The ground floor and first floor windows are 4/4 and 6/6 with those to the second floor 2/4 and 3/6. The entire rear elevation is rendered and painted as front. The main gabled roof is slated Tall rendered chimneystack to S with string course and decorative matching pots. Verge course to front and rear, both with recent looking moulded guttering. Modern style square downspouts. To front the small garden has low rendered walls and is filled with shrubbery. The former path to the front ‘entrance’ has been removed. [No.59 was rebuilt in the 1980s.]