2 Fitzwilliam Street, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT9 6AW

A three-storey late Georgian style terrace house of approximately 1849-50, situated at the eastern end of a block of four matching properties on the south side of Fitzwilliam Street. The block is positioned east of University Road, with the QUB Students' Union to the south and Lanyon's original college building to the west across University Road. The front façade faces north.

The ground floor features a four-panel timber door to the right with a rectangular fanlight with margin panes. The doorway has a thin pilaster jamb to the left and a much thicker pilaster to the right, which acts as a pier between this property and No. 4. Above the doorway is a hood on simple, functional-looking metal brackets that merges with the hood of No. 4, finished with timber cladding and a simple cornice. Two steps lead to the doorway. To the left are two windows with plain sash frames and moulded surrounds. The ground floor is finished in rusticated render with a chamfered base and cill band, painted overall.

The first floor has two similar sash windows without surrounds, positioned more widely spaced and not in line with those below. These windows rest on a cill band that runs across the entire terrace. The second floor has two sash windows similar to and in line with the first floor windows, only slightly shorter.

The upper storeys are finished in brick, topped with a dentilled cornice. The left (east) edge of the front façade is abutted by a high curving wall belonging to and enclosing the yard of No. 71 University Road. The east gable is blank and finished in plain painted render, abutted by a fairly large single-storey gabled return extending from the rear of No. 71 University Road.

The rear façade is finished in plain, unpainted cement render. No. 2 shares a low, two-storey gabled return with No. 4. The east face of this return has a plain sheeted doorway at ground floor centre, with two small windows to the left and another to the right, all fitted with modern timber frames and security bars. A small plain sash window with security bars sits to the far right on the first floor.

The south-facing gable end of the return has a single canted first-floor oriel window to the left (belonging to No. 4) and a single sash window to the right belonging to No. 2, featuring Georgian panes in a six-over-six configuration. The main rear façade of No. 2 has a sash window to the right at each floor, all in line, with the second-floor window slightly shorter. The ground floor frame is plain; the first and second floors have Georgian six-over-six panes, with security bars on the ground and first floors.

To the left of these windows and above the return are two stairwell landing windows, both with sash frames and Georgian panes. The upper window is much shorter, positioned close to the eaves, and features three panes over three; the lower has six over six.

The roof is gabled and covered in Bangor blue slate with rendered parapets to each gable. Each property has a small Velux window to the rear. The eastern chimney stack, belonging to No. 2, is rendered with tall, uniform cream-coloured clay pots. The broader central stack, serving Nos. 4-6, is partly rendered with a variety of pots. The western stack, serving No. 8, is in brick with no pots.

The return roof comprises two gabled sections with a valley between them, both covered in Welsh slate and hidden behind an encompassing end gable. A brick-built stack at the end gable carries two 19th-century-style octagonal pots. The return roof has a Velux window to its inner side. Cast iron rainwater goods are fitted to the main house, with mainly PVC rainwater goods to the returns.