50 Windsor Avenue, Belfast, BT9 7DX

Two-storey semi-detached Italianate villa, built c.1865, located at the junction of Windsor Avenue and Windsor Avenue North. Principal elevation faces south onto Windsor Avenue and its neighbour on the North side faces north (HB26/28/098B - No.1 Windsor Avenue North). Shallow hipped natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles; profiled uPVC rainwater goods to deep overhanging eaves on paired corbel brackets; stucco panelled chimneystacks with corniced caps, also on paired brackets. Stucco walling over a projecting plinth with projecting quoins, band-rusticated to ground floor with platband between floors and string course beneath eaves; single-storey projecting bays have dentilled cornice and flat roofs. Round-headed window openings to ground floor, segmental window openings to first floor, all with moulded stucco architraves with pilasters, impost moulding, keyblocks and painted projecting masonry cills; ground floor windows have panelled aprons. Box bay openings are grouped in threes. Windows appear mostly original 1/1 timber sliding sash with single glazing. Front elevation (S): Principal elevation faces south and is asymmetrically arranged; it reads as a primary three-bay proportion to left, with an additional two bays to the right beneath a slightly lower roofline, division emphasised by a downpipe and chimneystack over party wall; first floor openings arranged in pairs to all but the second and fifth from left; ground floor has (from left) a canted bay, principal entrance, a large square projection fronted by a canted bay, a shallow box bay with later patio doors inserted, and a single window. Principal entrance set in a round-headed opening with moulded stucco surround, timber four-panelled door (boarded over but door visible behind plywood), top two panels glazed, with overlight; there is a roofless cast-iron porch frame attached, with embellished squinches and side panels; original decorative tiles to entrance porch. A set-back return abuts to east and has diminished proportions and flush eaves. South elevation has two openings to each floor (windows are uPVC, replacement hardwood door and through-entry to ground floor); east elevation of return is abutted to ground floor level by adjacent building (No.52 Windsor Avenue) with a single window opening to first floor level; north elevation of return is largely blank with a first floor fire escape door. West elevation: No.50 has a two-storey canted bay, same detailing as S elevation bays; hipped roof. North elevation: Abutted by S side of No. 1 Windsor Avenue North. Setting: The pair of semi-detached houses occupy a wedge-shaped corner plot in a suburban setting, divided between the two houses at west by a hedge, which also bounds the properties from the road. No.50 retains its lawned garden plot, with tarmac drive to east. Materials: Roof: Natural Slate Walling: Stucco RWG: uPVC and l cast iron Windows: Timber sliding sash with s/g and some replacement uPVC