There was an advert in the Northern Whig - Saturday 18 April 1885 for Ardenlee House. Ardenlee House featured in The Belfast Directory for 1887. Ardenlee Avenue featured in the 1895 Belfast And Province Of Ulster Directory. It is likely the Ardenlee street names are named for Ardenlee House. This was a common practice throughout Belfast. "The Committee approved the undernoted applications for the naming of new streets and the continuation of existing streets to which the Royal Mail had offered no objection: Ardenlee Chase Off Ardenlee Avenue, BT6 Dougan Residential and Commercial" Pre April-2015 Health and Environmental Services Committee, 6th August 2014.