1 Rosetta Park, BELFAST, BT6 0DJ

A late Victorian detached house set on Rosetta Park, a quiet canted street running between Ravenhill Road and the main part of Rosetta Park. The surrounding area is residential, characterised by late Victorian semi-detached houses and some early twentieth century detached houses.

The building is a two storey structure with attic, rectangular in plan and symmetrical with a two storey return. The roof is covered in natural Bangor blue slate with a terracotta ridge-crest. The walls are constructed of red clay brick laid in English Garden Wall bond. The rainwater goods are uPVC. Windows throughout are 1/1 uPVC sliding sash with double glazing.

The front elevation (north-facing) is dominated by a central doorway flanked by full height canted bays either side. The panelled front door has glazed upper lights with a semi-circular light above, set within an opening framed by stepped sandstone quoins, a central keystone, and a label moulding with carved head-stops representing a king and a queen. The queen carving bears the incised inscription 'GOOD MORNING' within her crown. The windows in both bays are 1/1 sliding sash uPVC with sandstone sills and lintels. A small brick dentil course connects the openings below the ground floor lintel level, with a slightly larger brick dentil course running continuously beneath the first floor sills. The bays terminate in hipped slated roofs with elaborate brick eaves courses. The main gabled roof has tall red brick chimney stacks with projecting courses at each gable.

The east elevation has a canted bay to the ground floor matching the front elevation, with dentilled courses continuing across this face. The eaves courses return only a short distance, and the gable has plain verge boards. Ground floor has a further window to the left of the bay; the first floor has two windows and the attic a smaller window, all following the detailing of the front elevation.

The rear elevation (south-facing) features an original two storey return in brick with a cat-slide roof. Detailing is similar to other elevations but the lintels are brick on end and brick string courses are omitted. The main south elevation has French doors to the ground floor right; a top hung uPVC window to the left; and a central staircase window on the first floor retaining its original geometric coloured glass. Two smaller windows occupy the first floor, two further windows are to the right-hand cheek, and a door is positioned to the left. To the left of the return are two further windows.

The west elevation is largely blank except for a single attic window and the two brick string courses continuing from the front elevation. The west gable wall extends to a height of 2.5 metres, screening the rear garden and almost connecting to a large single storey garage with a smaller outbuilding positioned at right-angles. The garage has a hipped roof, a modern steel door, and two painted timber windows with inward-opening hoppers.

The house is set back approximately 5 metres from the footpath and accessed via two pairs of red brick pillars surmounted with ornate sandstone ball finials. Apart from a short stretch of painted steel railings between stained vertical timber pedestrian and vehicular gates, the majority of the front and side boundaries comprise waist-high vertical stained boards. A spacious garden, mostly laid to grass with mature trees and shrubs to the eastern boundary, extends around the side and rear to meet the garage. The garden includes some modern concrete paving and older paving laid in a random pattern.