Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB26/01/009 P

Address :
44 Sunnyside Street BELFAST BT7 3EX

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:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
147/6NW

IG Ref:
J3465 7167

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

Two-storey red-brick terrce house, built in 1909 and located on Sunnyside Street - a canted busy thoroughfare connecting the Ormeau Road with Annadale Embankment, approx. 3 km from Belfast city centre. The house is L-shape on plan with a two-storey return with double-pitched roof. One of a row of 21 no. Terraced houses set on the South side of Sunnyside Street, the area is residential with mainly small terraced houses built at the end of the nineteenth century and some semi-detached houses dating from the beginning of the twentieth century. Materials: Walls: Red-brick/English garden wall bond Roof: Natural slate Windows: Painted timber sliding-sash single-glazed to front /uPVC to rear Rwgs: Painted metal to front /uPVC to rear Front elevation (N) The front elevation has a painted timber 4-panel door and overlight (plain glazing) to the left and a painted timber top-hung double-glazed window to the right. The door has a semi-circular head with a moulded architrave and the window has a segmental head also with a moulded architrave. A similar but smaller window is almost centrally positioned on the first floor. There are 2 no. Modern metal name plates mounted to right of doorway, inscribed with the following, “NEIL J. CRAWFORD M.Ch.S., HPC Reg. PODIATRIST”, and “ JAMES G. CRAWFORD State Registered Chiropodist”. Brickwork is laid in English Garden Wall bond with clay ventilation bricks at each level and a projecting moulded brick course at eaves level, supporting cast metal ogee guttering. Natural slate roof with red-brick chimney stack on the right-hand side with concrete cap and replacement clay pots. Rear elevation (S) Red-brick with 1 no. Replacement uPVC window with replacement concrete head and cill at ground level and first floor level. Original clay ventilation bricks at each level. All rwgs and sanitary pipework to rear generally uPVC. New-build 2-storey extension attached to rear elevation at E boundary; generally red-brick with uPVC door and windows. Small enclosed yard area to rear with 2-storey red-brick extension to no. 46(HB26/01/009Q) to W and single-storey brick building associated with an adjacent commercial premises to S. Boarded timber gate in SW corner of yard. Yard set behind narrow laneway shared with nos. 44-52. Laneway bounded to S with corrugated tin fence enclosing an industrial yard; large group of red-brick single and two-storey industrial outbuildings S of industrial yard. Side elevation (E) abuts No. 42 Sunnyside Street (HB26/01/009 O). Side elevation (W) abuts No. 46 Sunnyside Street (HB26/01/009 Q). There is a small front garden finished in concrete block paviors, set behind a replacement red-brick boundary wall and gateway with painted metal railings and small painted metal arched gate. This boundary treatment was installed along with the new front doors and windows c1988 as part of an improvement scheme encompassing the whole terrace. The rear of the terrace is bounded to south by communal laneway shared with Whitehall Gdns.

Architects

Historical Information

Sunnyside Street is shown for the first time on the OS town plan of 1871-73 as a lane stretching from the Ormeau Road to the current junction with Whitehall Parade, the sole development along it a terrace of six houses on the north side marked as ‘Sunnyside’ (present nos.43-53). On Marcus Ward’s 1879 map of Belfast it is designated ‘Sunnyside Street’ (undoubtedly taking its name from the original terrace) and is shown extending slightly further west, just beyond the intersection of the present Rushfield Avenue, but no new developments are marked on this or on the OS town plans of 1883-84 and 1896. On the 1901-03 plan the present nos.14-24 are shown, with greater development on northern side also, and the street itself extended as far as the junction with Walmer Street, with brick fields between this and the River Lagan. The opening of King’s Bridge in 1912 allowed the street to reach its current extent, making it a thoroughfare linking directly through to Ridgeway Street on the other side of the River Lagan. No.44 This house is part of a long terrace of twenty one dwellings which although virtually identical are of slightly different dates. Nos.14-24 are shown on the OS map of 1903, and recorded in valuation book during that year, with nos.26-42 entered into the same book the following year, and nos.44-52 first referred to in the succeeding book during 1910. The developer of nos.14-42 appears to have been Hugh Scott, who is listed as the lessor for all of these particular properties in 1906, with John McBride mentioned as lessor for nos.44-52 in 1910; however, the identity of the architect (if any) is not known. The first occupant of No.44 appears to have been William Spence, noted in the street directories as a labourer. The 1911 census records the building as a second-class dwelling containing five rooms, occupied by Mr. Spence, his wife, Ellen, their four grown-up children and a daughter, as well as a boarder. W. John Witherall. John O’Hare was noted as the resident in 1918, and a member of his family was still living there in 1974. By 1980 the property had been acquired by the present owner and converted to a chiropodist’s surgery. The property was listed in 1986. The large extension to the rear was added c.2004. 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 OS8/30/3/59 1883-84 4 PRONI OS8/30/4/59 1896 5 PRONI VAL12B/43A/34, annual valuation revision book, 1897-1905 6 Census of Ireland, 1901, 1911 [online] 7 PRONI OS8/30/5/59 1903 8 ‘Belfast and Province of Ulster Street Directory’, (Belfast News-Letter, Belfast), various dates from 1903 to 95 9 PRONI VAL12B/43K/4, valuation book, 1906-15 10 HED File relating to HB26.01.009P (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 Z. Rarity S. Authenticity T. Historic Importance X. Local Interest

Evaluation

2-storey, red-brick terrace house built 1909. Part of a larger terrace of 21 no. Similar houses (HB26/01/009A-U), located on the South side of Sunnyside Street approx. 3 km from Belfast city centre. The house retains its external character, including, painted timber front door, sliding sash windows and slate roof and some internal features including original stairwell and porch. Despite replacement of the original front boundary and the addition of a new rear extension, the building has group value with the rest of the terrace. A good example of modest Edwardian urban terraced housing, 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.

General Comments

Date of Survey

11 October 2016