284 Tennent Street, Edenderry Gardens, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT13 3GG

284 Tennent Street (formerly No. 6 Edenderry Gardens) is a three-storey terraced house in the Shankill area of Belfast, built between 1907 and 1909 to designs by the Belfast architectural partnership of Robert Hill and Edwin Kennedy. It forms part of Edenderry Terrace, a residential development erected by the Edenderry Spinning Company, whose flax spinning mill stood immediately to the west of the site. The house was delisted in August 2015, having been judged no longer of special architectural or historic interest due to the loss of historic fabric and inappropriate incremental changes across the terrace as a whole, though it retains significance as a demonstration of Arts and Crafts movement detailing.

The building is asymmetrical in plan, two bays wide and two storeys with an attic, and faces east onto Tennent Street. To the rear there is a two-storey gabled return with a pitched red-tile roof, and a single-storey lean-to structure — formerly a coal shed — at ground floor level. A single-storey conservatory of no historic interest abuts the gable end. An internal yard sits to the rear.

The principal roof is pitched and clad in red clay tiles with roll-moulded red clay ridge tiles. A single brick chimney rises on the main elevation, featuring heavy bands and moulded detail, and is topped with tall clay pots carrying a rosette motif. A modern skylight has been inserted into the rear roof slope. Half-round cast iron rainwater goods are fixed to plain timber fascia boards at the eaves, though some have been replaced in uPVC to both the front and rear. A dated box hopper on the main elevation is inscribed "1907".

The walling to the principal elevation and return is laid in Flemish bond brick, with English Garden Wall bond to the rear. Roughcast render covers the first floor level on both front and rear elevations. Decorative terracotta vents appear on the main façade and rear, though some have been rendered over.

The principal east-facing elevation is two openings wide at ground floor level. The original timber-sheeted front door survives, though with replacement glass inserts and glazing bars, and retains various items of door furniture including a number "6" plate, a reference to the property's original address as No. 6 Edenderry Gardens. The door is framed by a moulded brick segmental-arch surround and sheltered by a flat-roofed timber canopy with lead capping and angled metal bracket supports. To the right of the entrance, a fully glazed canted bay window rises over a brick plinth with offset sills, its red-tile roof stepping up to a smaller flat-roofed canted bay window at first floor level. At attic level, a central gabled dormer contains a uPVC casement window, with Tudor-style timber boards to the gable front and eaves. Windows to the first and second floor stairwell are vertically sliding timber sash; all remaining windows have been replaced in uPVC.

The south elevation abuts the adjoining terrace property to the south. The rear west elevation is abutted by the two-storey return; the south cheek of the return is blank. The west gable end carries a plain timber fascia board and a uPVC window at first floor. The north cheek has an enlarged window opening and a replacement door at ground floor, alongside an original timber sash window at first floor. The main rear elevation has ground and first floor windows to the left, and an original timber sash window above the roof of the return to the right. All rear windows are surmounted by flat arches; concrete sills survive at ground floor level. A timber-sheeted and braced door through the boundary wall gives access to the internal yard. A blank two-storey wall to the north, belonging to the adjoining listed property, bounds the yard on that side. The north elevation of the house abuts the neighbouring terrace property to the north. Rear walling is brick in English Garden Wall bond. Offset brick sills and flat arch heads are used throughout the rear elevation.

The house stands on the west side of Tennent Street, between the Crumlin and Shankill Roads. To the front, a small garden is enclosed by a dwarf brick wall with cast iron railings and gate along Tennent Street. To the rear, a long narrow garden plot runs westward to a boundary wall. A paved walkway extends along the rear of all properties in the terrace, between the garden plots and the backs of the buildings, though this has been sealed with locked gates to the south. To the west, on the site of the former Edenderry Spinning Mill, there is now a mixed-use business park and apartment complex. Crumlin Road Presbyterian Church sits to the north-east on the corner of Crumlin Road and Tennent Street.

The site appears undeveloped on earlier Ordnance Survey maps and the terrace first appears on the fourth edition map of 1920–31, though construction records confirm the house was completed by 1909. The surrounding area had developed rapidly from the mid-19th century as a consequence of the thriving linen industry and its expanding workforce. The Annual Revisions of 1906–15 record the house and yard as added in 1909 at a valuation of £14. The 1911 Census records the first occupants as Walter Campbell and Sarah Jones. The property appeared as No. 6 Edenderry Gardens in the 1910 Street Directory before being renumbered as part of Tennent Street in subsequent decades. By the first General Revaluation of 1935 the value had risen to £20, and the house was then occupied successively by R. M. Steven and A. Mollan.

The house was designed to reflect the improving standards of working-class housing that followed the building and sanitation regulations of the late 19th century — providing accommodation for a single family, with a rear yard accessible from a passage at the front, a number of sizable windows on the main elevation, and the modern amenities of the period, in contrast to earlier overcrowded housing that lacked drainage, water supply, or rear access, where waste from the privy and ash pit had to be carried through the scullery. The Arts and Crafts detailing — including the dormer, bay windows, roughcast render, and irregular roofline — reflects the design ethos of the city's second great building phase, of which this terrace forms a late example. The property remained in the ownership of the Edenderry Spinning Company until at least 1972. The Spinning Company continued to operate on the adjoining site until 1988. Some late 20th century repairs and alterations are noted on the heritage file.