Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB26/01/019 I

Address :
563 Ormeau Road BELFAST BT7 3JA

Townland:
Ballynafoy

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
19/08/1986 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House - Terrace

Former Use
House - Terrace

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:

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OS Map No:
147/6NW

IG Ref:
J3494 7110

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

Two storey with attic end of terrace house rendered to the ground floor and red brick to the first. One of a terrace of 9 houses built in 1886 on the upper Ormeau Road in a mainly residential area c 4km from the centre of Belfast. House is rectangular on plan with two storey return and a small ground floor extension on the South side. Materials Walls: Painted render to the ground floor and red clay brick to the first. Side elevation (S) and return are wholly rendered. Roof: Natural Bangor Blue slates Windows: 1/1 top hung uPVC RWGs: uPVC Front elevation (E) The front elevation has smooth painted render to the ground floor and re clay rick laid in Flemish bond, with two rows of blue brick laid underneath a decorative brick cornice. The ground floor has the original 4 panelled door to the right set under a hood which is supported on ornate brackets. To the left is a canted bay with 1/uPVC top hung windows and a raised plinth. The first floor is separated from the ground floor with a plaster string course and contains two 1/1 uPVC windows as the ground floor. A pitched roof dormer sits on the wall head and has a replacement top hung window with a fixed semi-circular light above. There is a Velux type roof-light to either side of the dormer and a large clay brick chimney stack set on the gable to the left – detailed as the front elevation. The left-hand corner has painted alternating quoins. Side elevation (S) This gable elevation is smooth painted render apart from the brick chimney set on the ridge. It has alternation painted quoins on both corners and a raised plinth. The ground floor has one window to the extreme left; first floor a window on each side and the attic storey has a smaller window with a semi-circular head set to the left – all are top hung uPVC. This side elevation wall continues on the same plane to encompass a small mono-pitched extension to the kitchen, which has 2 Velux type windows in the roof. The main return terminates against a recently constructed two storey house, built on the former rear garden of No563, and is rendered with two top-hung windows to the first floor and another to the ground floor. The kitchen is entered through a uPVC double door in the extension. Side elevation (N) Abuts No 565 Ormeau Road - HB26 01 019H Rear elevation (W) The rear wall of the return abuts the new house in St John’s Avenue, and the only opening is a small top hung window to the left in the attic storey. The rear slope of the roof has 2 Velux type roof lights.

Architects

Historical Information

Nos.547-63 Ormeau Road - This row, originally known as ‘Rosetta Terrace’ appears in the valuation book in two stages, the four southernmost dwellings (present nos.557-63) completed in 1886 and nos.547-55 the following year. The developer appears to have been one H. Scott, who occupied what is now no.557 and who is noted in the earliest valuations as the immediate lessor. He is listed in contemporary directories as a pawnbroker with premises at 117 Shankill Road, and is presumably the Hugh Scott (or a close relation thereof) who developed much of the south-eastern end of Sunnyside Street in the early 1900s [see HB26.01.009A-U]. The identity of the architect is not known. A letting advert of October 1886 describes one of the properties finished in that year as a ‘large house’ with ‘three reception, five bedrooms, hot and cold water, with all modern improvements; warm, healthy situation, with gardens; trams pass door’, with a subsequent advert of July 1887, relating to the five dwellings finished in that year referring to, ‘those new houses; well finished; two reception rooms on ground floor [and] six bedrooms’. No.563 The original occupant was John Walker (a bookkeeper working for distillers Dunville & Co.). 1901 census is recorded as living there with his wife, Edith Anne, their seven children, his sister, Margaret Stewart and her daughter, Lizzie, and a domestic servant. Mr. Walker died at some point in the early 1900s and in the 1911 census the house was occupied his widow and five of their children, with the building itself a first class dwelling containing 12 rooms. Members of the Walker family continued to live at no.563 until the later 1970s, with a J. Styles named as householder in the 1980 street directory, Stephen Elliott in 1990 and Paula J. Wynburne in 1995. The property was acquired by a housing association c.2000 and became a house in multiple occupation run by a charitable body shortly afterwards. The building was listed in 1986. The return was extended and a new dwelling built next to the same c.1998. References – Primary sources 1 PRONI OS8/30/2/OS town plan of Belfast, 1871-73 2 Marcus Ward’s ‘Shilling Map of Belfast’, 1879 3 PRONI VAL12B/43A/18, annual valuation revision book, 1882-96 4 PRONI OS8/30/3/59 1883-84 5 Belfast Telegraph, 16 October 1886, 29 July 1887 6 ‘Belfast and Province of Ulster Street Directory’, (Belfast News-Letter, Belfast), various dates from 1890 to 96 7 PRONI OS8/30/4/59 1896 8 PRONI VAL12B/43A/34, annual valuation revision book, 1897-1905 9 Census of Ireland, 1901, 1911 [online] (Building details for 1901 not available.) 10 PRONI OS8/30/5/59 1903 11 HED File relating to HB26.01.019A (c.1986- )

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form H-. Alterations detracting from building I. Quality and survival of Interior J. Setting K. Group value

Historic Interest

R. Age S. Authenticity X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Two storey with attic end of terrace house rendered to the ground floor and red brick to the first. One of a terrace of 9 houses built in 1886 on the upper Ormeau Road in a mainly residential area c 4km from the centre of Belfast. This house is well detailed both internally and externally and has a wealth of Victorian architectural interest and was built at a time when Belfast was expanding rapidly from the city centre southwards along the main thoroughfares of the Ormeau, Lisburn and Malone Roads. Despite the insertion of inappropriate uPVC windows, it has group value with the other houses in this listed terrace – 547 to 563 Ormeau Road – HB26 01 019 A to I.

General Comments

Date of Survey

07 December 2016