169 Belfast Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Attached three-bay one-and-a-half storey house, built c.1820, located to the south of Belfast Road. The plan is rectangular with a one-and-a-half storey extension to the rear.

The roofs are pitched and slated with deep overhanging eaves. The main pitched roof has a central polychromatic brick chimney with three clay pots. Gables have fretted timber bargeboards, finials and dropped circle motif. The walls are smooth rendered over a painted plinth. Original square headed 1/1 sliding sash timber windows, with horns are contained in Tudor-arch-headed openings. All windows have painted masonry sills.

The principal elevation faces north. The door is located in the right bay. All other bay contain ground floor window. The central window is surmounted by a pitched dormer containing the first floor window. The bay to the east is extended. The entrance door opening is Tudor-arch-headed with painted moulded surround, containing an original square headed timber panelled door with Tudor arch top panels. The door has original brass door-knocker in the form of a stylised stag.

The west elevation is abutted by 167 Belfast Road (HB20/12/002C). The west elevation of the extension is concrete blockwork.

The south elevation is abutted to left by flat-roofed extension. The south elevation of the extension has uPVC windows to first floor level and uPVC glazed doors to ground floor.

The east elevation has a single window to first floor level and a replacement square headed uPVC casement window to ground floor. The extension is pitched to this elevation. It contains one large square headed uPVC window to ground floor level. The elevation is abutted by a rendered wall to the south which encloses the rear garden. There is a single-storey flat-roofed rendered garage to the east of the house, connected to it by a rendered wall with door opening.

The house is directly accessed from Belfast Road to the north. The main elevation is abutted to the east by random rubble black-stone walling with square pillars supporting modern double gates. There is a timber shed to the south-east, and a small brick outbuilding to the rear boundary wall. The site is bounded to the south by hedging.

Roof covering Natural slate
Walling Painted render
Windows Timber 1/1 sliding sash
Rainwater goods Cast iron half-round gutters and round downpipess

Historical information

The house appears on the 1st Edition OS map of the area, dated 1834. On subsequent editions of the map, dated up to the 6th edition of 1962, the plan form remains unchanged, indicating that the extension was carried out in more recent years.

The Griffiths Valuation of 1859 states the Immediate Lessor was William Chaine, and the Townland and Occupier was James Martin, the house valued at £2.5s.0d.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/1/50/1, 1st Edition OS Map, Co Antrim, sheet no 50, 1834
2. PRONI OS/6/1/50/2, 2nd Edition OS Map, Co Antrim, sheet no 50, 1857
3. PRONI OS/6/1/50/3, 3rd Edition OS Map, Co Antrim, sheet no 50, 1902
4. PRONI OS/6/1/50/4, 4th Edition OS Map, Co Antrim, sheet no 50, 1921
5. PRONI OS/6/1/50/6, 6th Edition OS Map, Co Antrim, sheet no 50, 1962
6. PRONI VAL/2/A/1/50B, Griffiths Valuation Map, 1859
7. PRONI VAL/2/B/1/52, Griffiths Valuation Field book, 1859

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
H-. Alterations detracting from building
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

An attached four-bay one-and-a-half storey house with attractive fretted timber bargeboards and Tudor detailing. It is part of a group of six picturesque dwellings along this road that are of note in their style, character and arrangement. The house has been extended in recent years to the rear and the plan form has changed significantly but it remains of interest as part of the group.