1-5 Royal Avenue, Belfast, County Antrim, BT1 1FB

A five storey building on the southeast corner of Royal Avenue and High Street. Designed by David Salmond in 1881 in Italianate style. Flat roof unseen. Rainwater pipes unseen. Walls are painted render with mouldings: bracketted cornice over third floor, string to first and second cill level, giant half-fluted Corinthian pilasters rise between second and third floors, rusticated pilasters to first floor, window architraves and aprons. Windows to fourth floor are flat lintelled; third floor windows have reeded stucco sides, foliate brackets, floral roundels and moulded cornices (with triangular pediments to single windows, segmental to tripartite), coffered apron to cills; second floor windows match third floor but with no pediments or aprons to cills; first floor windows have lugged architraves, the single window matches the third floor. Ground floor fascia and shop front is modern. All windows to are uPVC. The west elevation is 3 windows wide (1/3/3) with the rounded corner to the south. A fire escape door is situated to the north. The corner is canted out to form bay windows to the first and second floors. The north elevation is abutted by HB26/50/225B. The rear east elevation is unseen, on High Street it is abutted by a modern building. The south elevation matches the west having a bi-partite window to the east of the corner bay. Setting 1-5 Royal Avenue sits on the southeast corner of the busy commercial street and High St.. To the north is HB26/50/225B which continues the same roofline, rhythm, materials and details. The building faces HB26/50/32, HB26/50/153, HB26/50/106, HB26/50/107 which are in line across Royal Avenue. To the east on High Street are located HB26/50/152 and HB26/50/299. Roof: unseen Walls: render Windows: uPVC RWGs: unseen.