Gardeners Cottage and Walled Garden, Malone Golf Club, 240 Upper Malone Road, Belfast, Co Antrim BT17 9LB

Roofless, symmetrical three-bay single-storey Tudor-Revival style gardener’s cottage with attic, built c.1835, abutting NE corner of former walled garden of Ballydrain House (now Malone Golf Club House: HB/26/16/002A) to south of the main house. Square on plan with enclosed yard located to west. Roof missing; first survey slide dated May 1984 showed a hipped natural slate roof with gabled dormer off-centred on E side. No rainwater goods, although projecting ashlar sandstone eaves course remains. Quarry-faced basalt rubble walling, laid to regular courses, ashlar sandstone quoins and plinth course. Square-headed bipartite window openings, ashlar sandstone block-and-start surrounds, flush chamfered sandstone sills, moulded sandstone mullions and label moulds. Remains of 4/4 timber sliding sash windows. Principal elevation faces E, symmetrically arranged, windows regularly spaced to either side of square-headed entrance, having ashlared sandstone block-and-start surround and label mould; door missing. S Elevation is blank save toothed quions to E side. N Elevation has single window, centred on wall, which although largely overgrown, appears to have same surround as windows on E elevation. W Elevation enclosed by small walled yard (not accessed). Segmental-headed entrance to yard wall, having red brick toothed surround and replacement timber boarded door. Yard wall projects from N face of walled garden, near main entrance to the latter. Walled garden has external rubble-stone basalt walling, lined internally with red brick laid to English garden wall bond with tooled sandstone coping. To SE, portion of external face also redbrick, with curved stepped coping. Square-headed door opening to NE; painted metal lintel and replacement sliding timber framed and planked door. Remains of abutment to external face of N wall including partially demolished wall and infilled door opening having timber lintel and segmental red brick relieving arch over. Setting: Set to the south portion of former demesne, now surrounded by Malone Golf Club, substantially screened by mature trees. Car park to N and late C20 groundskeepers’ sheds located hard to W side. Internally, garden features replaced by bowling green. Further information on the landscaping features of the former Ballydrain demesne can be found on the NI Historic Gardens Inventory, ref: AN: 116 Materials: Roof: Missing (originally natural slate as recorded on first survey slide) RWG: Missing Walls: Basalt and sandstone Windows: Vestigial timber framed sliding sash, single glazed with multi-paned sashes to E elevation