1 Upper Knockbreda Road

Description
This Edwardian Grade B Listed detached family home occupies a spacious site extending to 0.75 acre perfectly located off the Outer Ring enabling comfortable access to the City Centre, M1, M2 and other arterial routes

Accessed off Upper Knockbreda Road and Tudor Avenue the property is within close proximity of a host of local amenities, schooling, Forestside Shopping Centre and a short drive from Ballyhackamore in East Belfast

The current house dates from c1910. The house was the residence of Thomas Houston, Architect and Civil Engineer (born 1873), who established his own practice in Belfast in 1901. The house was built to his own design. Although his work included hospitals, churches and commercial premises, he was renowned for many of the domestic revival houses in the Malone area, most in an Arts and Crafts manner. In 1939 the house was sold to Dr J.A. Corkey MA FRCSI, DOMS, an eminent ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast who lived there until his death, survived by a daughter who continued living at the property until c2018

The property requires requires extensive modernisation internally and externally

Please note the site is not suitable for any further development

Viewing is by private appointment through our Lisburn Road Office 02890 668888