25-39 Arthur Street, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT1 4GA

Attached symmetrical multi-bay two-storey classically-styled granite-fronted former bank, built 1894, to the designs of Vincent Craig. Square on plan arranged around a central glazed dome and facing east onto Arthur Street. Converted for use as a bar and restaurant c.2004. Hipped natural slate roof on a quadrangular plan with a central glazed dome and roll-moulded terracotta ridge tiles. Tall profiled granite ashlar chimneystacks rising from both side elevations with roof set behind balustraded parapet with moulded coping punctuated by squat piers terminated by granite urns. Piers to either side of central pediment rise as a further pair of twin chimneystacks. Granite ashlar walling with moulded granite plinth course. Square-headed window openings generally with moulded architrave surrounds, continuous moulded sill courses and single-pane timber sash windows. Symmetrical east front elevation is seven windows wide surmounted by an architrave and dentilated modillioned cornice topped by a shallow pediment with a wreath-framed roundel to the tympanum. First floor window openings are framed by scrolled console brackets supporting triangular pediments with a segmental pediment to the central window. Ground floor window openings are recessed within a cavetto moulded frames having bowtel-moulded surrounds. Square-headed door opening to the right bay with surround as per ground floor windows having double-leaf hardwood doors with raised-and-fielded panels and square overlight. Central segmental-headed door opening with bowtel-moulded surround and double-leaf hardwood doors having raised-and-fielded panels with plain glazed overlight. Door opening flanked by Ionic pilasters and supporting lintel cornice and pair of elaborate scrolled brackets and dentilled cornice supporting deep moulded and panelled granite hood. Door opens onto three nosed stone steps to the street. South side elevation abutted by adjoining building. Rear elevation abutted by commercial building fronting onto Callender Street. North side elevation abutted by adjoining building. Setting: Facing east onto Arthur Street abutted by late twentieth-century office buildings to the south of Arthur Square. Roof: Natural slate RWG : Not seen Walling: Granite ashlar Windows: Single-pane timber sash