39 Park Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Mid-terrace three-storey rendered house, built c.1924. Rectangular on plan facing north, built as one of four identical houses on the south side of Park Road.

Pitched natural slate, roll-moulded terracotta ridge tiles, shared redbrick chimneystacks to either end and plastic guttering to timber fascia. Painted rough-cast rendered walling. Square-headed window openings with rendered surrounds, masonry sills and timber sash windows with ogee horns.

Front elevation is two windows wide with a three-sided canted bay window to the ground floor with original timber casement windows having leaded overlights and concrete sill. Off-centre square-headed door opening with original double-leaf flat-panelled timber doors, rectangular overlight and three-centred arched concrete canopy supported on concrete brackets. Door opens onto stone step to concrete paved footpath.

East side elevation abutted by adjoining house No.41 (HB26/02/020C).

Redbrick three-storey rear elevation abutted by gable-ended two-storey redbrick return. Square-headed window openings with some replacement concrete lintels, masonry sills and uPVC windows.

West side elevation abutted by adjoining house No.37 (HB26/02/020A).

Setting:
Forming part of a terrace of four similar houses lining the north side of Park Road.

Roof Natural slate
RWG Plastic
Walling Rough-cast render
Windows Timber sash

Historical information

The current house is one of a terrace of four, built in 1924 by McIntyre Brothers, contractors and is first shown on the fifth edition OS map of 1931. (Valuation Records)

This area bordering the southern edge of the Ormeau Park was slowly developed over the closing decades of the nineteenth century and the opening decades of the twentieth. Park Road was the last of three residential roads, including North Parade and South Parade, to be developed connecting the Ormeau and Ravenhill Roads and was laid out subsequent to the construction of the Cooke Centenary Church in the early 1890s. In 1901 there were only six houses in Park Road, by 1931 the road had been fully developed.
A terrace of four houses enters valuation records in 1924, all built by McIntyre Brothers and valued at £21, except for number 37 which has a motor house to the rear, bringing the valuation to £23. A further three houses were added to the terrace subsequently. These were ‘in progress’ in 1924 and enter valuation records in 1925. There are no significant changes in the valuation over ensuing years, other than those brought about by the general revaluation of property.

Number 39 was initially called ‘Belmont’. The first occupant to be noted is Alexander J Campbell, a manager, who was resident until 1928. The next occupier was J N Brodie, electrical engineer, who had formerly lived in the neighbouring house, number 41. Brodie lived in the house until at least 1950, briefly sharing it with Thomas McAllister of the Belfast Collar Co Ltd in the early 1930s.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/3/4/5 – Fifth Edition OS Map 1931
2. PRONI VAL/12/B/43/K/1-8 – Annual Revisions (1897-1930)
3. Street Directories 1924-1950

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Mid-terrace three-storey rendered house, built c.1924. Rectangular on plan facing north, built as one of four identical houses on the south side of Park Road. It is not of sufficient architectural or historic interest to warrant listing.