34 Station Road, Sydenham, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT4 1RF

This is a mid-Victorian two-storey red-brick house dating from circa 1865. It forms the central property of a three-part terrace on the south side of Station Road, accessed through Inglewood Court.

The building has a rectangular plan with two single-storey bay windows to the front and a two-storey lean-to extension to the rear. The pitched roof is covered with natural slate and finished with angled black-clay ridge tiles. Dentilled cornicing supports ogee cast iron guttering that discharges to circular downpipes on the principal elevation; uPVC rainwater goods are fitted to the rear. Two red-brick stepped chimney stacks with buff-brick dressings and corbelled coping sit at the east and west ends of the house.

The walling is rustic red brick laid in Flemish bond with a projecting plinth, now rendered. Square-headed window openings feature flat relieving arches and painted cills. Most windows are original double-hung timber sashes with ogee horns, containing 1/1 panes on the ground floor and 2/2 horizontal panes on the first floor, unless noted otherwise.

The three-bay symmetrical north-facing principal elevation is centred by a square-headed door opening with painted architrave and a moulded hood supported on floriated brackets. A timber-panelled door with a fanlight opens onto two concrete steps flanked by low stone walls. The door is flanked by single-storey three-part canted bay windows fitted with 1/1 double-hung timber sashes and topped by moulded cornicing; each bay has a window to the first floor.

The east elevation adjoins the neighbouring property, 32 Station Road, whilst the west elevation adjoins 36 Station Road.

The four-bay-wide rear (south-facing) elevation is rendered and features a two-storey, two-bay return to centre with a cat-slide roof. Square-headed window openings are present throughout, with top-hung timber casement windows to the rear elevation of the return. A door opening on the east face of the return contains a modern sheeted timber door opening to the yard. A margin-paned sash window with patterned coloured glass is set into the west elevation of the return. A 6/6-pane double-hung sash occupies the west bay at first-floor level; remaining windows are 2/2 sashes with horizontally divided panes.

To the north of the site, a gravelled driveway and modest landscaped garden are shared by the terrace. The driveway continues eastward to a modern single-storey pitched-roof garage at the southeast end of the site. The site is enclosed to the north, facing Station Road, by a hedge. A curved red-brick dwarf wall ending in plain square-section piers forms the main driveway entrance to Inglewood Court and serves the entire site. An iron gate survives at the northeast end of the site onto Station Road, now partially obscured by the hedge. The gate is supported on simple rectangular-section piers and bears a small iron plaque engraved with the name "Sandringham"—the original name of the houses.

To the rear, a partly-tiled yard contains a shed and conservatory, enclosed by a red-brick wall with a square-headed sheeted timber door. A modern two-storey red-brick housing development has been constructed to the south of the site, accessed through Inglewood Court.