4 Station Road, Belfast, Sydenham, BT4 1RE

This house takes the form of a T-plan with the east end of the building composed of a gable-ended block with north-south axis. Attached to its west end there is a long rectangular gable ended block with a slightly lower roof with east-west axis. The house faces and lies parallel to Number 2 (HB26/09/002) and once formed part of the same yard, behind the now demolished residence of ‘The Den’. Like the adjacent house, it was built in a Tudor Revival Style’, though like most other pseudo-half framed buildings of this era, it is of not really a genuine timber-framed house. In a matter of detail however, the house differs from No. 2. In particular, there is very much less of half timber-framing. The East End Block: Gable-ended block with higher roof than west end, and unlike the latter has a decorated ridge piece and a tall brick chimney stack with three ceramic pots. The north gable is broken by a central window with top hung casement, enclosed by a grid of wooden wall studs and a tree stud arrangement above. The south gable, which clearly was not so visible, also has a central window, but the wall studding, composed of vertical studs, is confined only to the area above the window top. The window in the south gable is also plain with a top hung casement, but on the north gable there are two camber- headed windows on the ground floor level, both windows having top opening casements. A glass lean-to conservatory has been added to the east end and looks like a 1960s addition. The West End Block: Long rectangular range attached to the side wall of the East Block with east-west axis and slightly lower roof line. It has a slated roof (no decorated ridge piece), a plain brick chimney and three rather unattractive dormer windows, two on the north and one on the south side. These dormers, which look to be additions of the 1950s or 1960s, have flat roofs and side-opening casements. The front door lies on the north side, close to the wall with the East End and beside this a small window. Further south in the West Block there is a large sliding garage-door, which looks an 1960s addition.The rere or south side of the West Block, which has been dug into the hillside, has a back door at the east end and a window, both post relatively modern replacements.