24 Hawthornden Road, Belfast, Co.Antrim, BT4 3JU

24 Hawthornden Road is one of a pair of three-bay, one-and-a-half storey semi-detached cottages built in 1900 in the Arts and Crafts style. It is attached to its neighbour, 22 Hawthornden Road, on the south side.

The building has an almost T-shaped plan, comprising a main north-south block with returns to the east. A single storey lean-to contains the entrance door, which is set back from a gabled return facing east. This gabled return sits proud of the remaining wall shared with the neighbouring building.

The walls are constructed of red brick with Flemish bond to the lower ground floor, topped with a projecting string and brick special coping with cyma moulding. Above ground floor cill level, the walls are finished with pebble-dash. A terracotta string course sits below the first floor window, and there is a half-timber effect to the apex of the gable. Brick corbelled detail appears at both corners of the central bay between ground and first floor level on the canted corner wall.

The roof is hipped and gabled, clad in rosemary clay tiles with a decorated terracotta ridge featuring ball finials to the gable ends. Smooth rolled terracotta tiles cover the hips. The building has exposed rafter ends to the west elevation and timber barge-boards throughout. Cast-iron rainwater goods are in place. A central red-brick chimneystack, rebuilt using part reclaimed and part modern brick, contains three clay pots.

The principal elevation faces east. The entrance door is painted timber, set within a shallow arched head with smooth render detail. A tripartite timber sash window to the ground floor gable has a central sash with 6 over 1 panes and two side sashes with 4 over 1 panes, with a painted cill flush with the wall. A paired painted 6 over 1 sash window lights the south bay. An oriel window to the upper floor central bay has a top-hung timber frame divided into two, with upper sections divided into six panes each. A small flat-roofed dormer with a single casement window is shared with the neighbouring property to the south bay.

The west elevation contains original walls to a former yard to the north, sitting forward of the main house and topped with stone coping, though a new section of wall has been inserted behind. An inverted arch coping detail sits over a door opening with a timber painted sheeted door-and-a-half with lantern light to a flat roof beyond. The remaining elevation at this side is single-storey, with two painted timber 6 over 1 sash windows. A flat-roofed dormer in three sections to the central hip contains side-hung casements.

The north elevation comprises two bays: to the east a porch with lean-to roof, and to the west a gabled end to the main north-south block. Windows are 6 over 1 timber sliding sash, with one centrally placed and a decorated vent in the apex of the gable above, and a smaller 6 over 1 window to the east.

The south elevation is attached to 22 Hawthornden Road.

The building is located on a level corner site at the junction of Hawthornden Road and Knocklofty Park, on the west side of Hawthornden Road behind a modern low brick wall. There is a garden area to the front (east) with a pedestrian gate to the east boundary. The site has a rear garden and a timber garage to the rear north-west corner, with vehicular access on the north boundary. The cottage was built by William Pirrie, owner of the Ormiston estate.