4 College Park East, Belfast, BT7 1PS

Four College Park East, Belfast is a high Victorian three-storey red brick mid-terrace house, built in 1864 as the first of the College Park East terrace to a design by Young & MacKenzie. The building is now used as university offices. Located at the junction of College Park East and University Avenue, immediately south of Union Theological College and east of Queen's University's main buildings, it stands between Nos 1–3 to its north and Nos 5–6 to its south. The whole terrace, along with Hope House in College Park to the south-east, is now integrated internally. While No 4 has no return to the rear, a modern two to three-storey flat-roofed building has been constructed behind Nos 4 and 5, connected internally to Nos 5, 6 and Hope House, with an external alleyway separating the rear elevation of No 4 from this new structure.

The front elevation facing west onto College Park East is double-fronted and symmetrical. Built in red brick with Flemish bond, it features a centrally located ground floor entrance and a single storey canted bay to either side. Three window openings appear on both first and second floor levels, aligned with the bays below. The first floor openings are square with splayed brick soldier heads and stone cills, while the second floor has segmental arched openings with brick voussoirs and a continuous painted stone string course above. A small painted rendered plinth sits at the base, with toothed quoins to the north and south edges, also in painted render.

The canted bays have flat roofs with a modern roof membrane over projecting cornices. The entrance comprises a tall square-headed opening flanked by projecting painted stone pilasters with decorative moulded plaster console brackets of acanthus leaf design, beneath a projecting moulded flat entablature forming the porch roof. Behind these, a recessed door surround has painted plain pilasters below simple capitals and plain entablature. The door itself, possibly original, is painted panelled timber with a plain overlight. One square stone step leads to the entrance, with a painted rendered dwarf wall either side; the left side retains an original cast iron boot scraper. All front windows are single-glazed timber sliding sash with horns, likely replacements. The canted bay on the left side has 1/2 (horizontally split) windows to the central section and 2/2 (horizontally split) to the splays; the right bay has the same arrangement except the central window is 1/1. First floor level windows are 1/1; second floor windows are 2/1 on the left side and 2/2 (vertically split) to centre and right. An overhanging eaves on cast iron brackets sits below a natural slate pitched roof with black clay ridge tiles. Brick chimneys to each side are centred on the gable, with terracotta pots visible on the right side chimney. Both chimneys are abutted by those of adjacent houses. A small front garden, now paved with concrete paving stones, is enclosed by a painted plinth wall with replacement painted metal railings. Rainwater goods are cast iron to the front.

The side elevations to north and south are fully abutted by adjacent properties.

The rear elevation facing east is a flat facade with multiple openings of various sizes. Alterations are evident throughout, with patches of different brickwork visible. The top floor is of entirely different red brick to the floors below. The ground floor has a centrally located modern timber and glass door with glazed side panel. To the left are two window openings: 4/4 panes to the extreme left and 6/6 to its right. To the right of the door is one large window opening of 10/10 panes. Directly above the front door at half landing level is a large segmental arched opening with a replacement double-glazed timber window; the surrounding brickwork, including brick voussoirs, is replacement, and a small original rear return may have been demolished in this location. The first floor consists of two windows on the left side of the door (6/6 to left and 4/4 to right) and a single window to the right (6/6). At second floor half landing level is a 6/6 window, aligned with the window below. The second floor comprises two windows on the left side, both 2/2 with the right window of the pair being narrower, and a single 2/2 window to the right. All windows to the rear have splayed brick heads, painted stone cills and painted rendered reveals, with the exception of the half landing window. The windows are single-glazed timber sliding sash with horns, likely original except for the half landing window; some panes retain historic glass. The brickwork is mostly laid in English Garden Wall bond (three rows of stretchers between one row of headers), though in places four rows of stretchers appear between header rows. The pitched roof to the rear is natural Welsh slate, with plastic rainwater goods.

The building is constructed of natural Welsh slate roofing, red brick in Flemish bond to walls, and timber sliding sash windows with horns. Cast iron rainwater goods serve the front elevation, with PVC goods to the rear.