75 University Road (Fitzwilliam Place), Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT7 1NF

Relatively plain two storey gabled house, one of a somewhat squat, mildly Neo-classical, terrace of three (‘Fitzwilliam Place’) dating from c.1846-48. The terrace is set on the W side of University Road, abutting Queen’s University Student’s Union at an angle to the S, and roughly facing Lanyon’s original Queen’s College building of 1845-49. To the N is Fitzwilliam Street and directly in front all properties in the terrace share a garden, which lends the block a slight ‘country cottage’ air. No.75 is to the S end of the terrace (abutting the Student’s Union). The symmetrical front façade faces E. To the centre of the ground floor is the front entrance which consists of a panelled timber door with plain rectangular fanlight, all encased with panelled pilasters, with decorative brackets supporting a cornice hood. The edges of the hood appear to be ‘enclosed’ in timber. Either side of the entrance is a fairly large window with plain sash frame, simple moulded surround and relatively slim cill. To the first floor are three similar windows, all smaller than those to the ground floor but with the outer windows broader and squatter than that to the centre. The façade has full height, panelled, outer pilasters, a deep eaves course and a gutter course. To the left side of the doorway is a small, bronze, oval plaque, commemorating this house as the birth place of novelist James Owen. Hannay. The rear façade has a large, centrally located, two storey gabled return. To the N face of this return has three windows with modern frames (made to resemble sash with Georgian panes), to the ground floor. To the first floor are four windows with similar frames. To the S face of the return there are three windows to the ground floor and four to the first floor, all with similar frames as those on the N face. To the left (E) on the ground floor is a lean-to (backing into the main rear façade) with a glazed door and two small-ish windows (with modern frames as before). Velux windows to lean-to roof. This lean-to acts as a short linking ‘corridor’ to No.73. The W gable of the return is blank. This whole return was rebuilt in c.1991, replacing an earlier smaller version The main rear façade has a 6 over 6 Georgian sash window to the left and to the right of the return at first floor level. There is a similar window to the right of the return at ground floor level. The entire façade is finished in plain render and painted. The main roof is gabled and covered in natural slate. There are three Velux windows to the rear and a rendered parapet to the N gable. There is a rendered chimney stack to the N on the ridge (shared with No.73), with octagonal pots. Metal [?cast iron and aluminium] rw goods. High rendered walls enclosing yards to rear (one yard shared with No.73).