Fountain House, 17-21 Donegall Place, Belfast, County Antrim, BT1 5AB

Five storey commercial building designed in 1935-37 by Young and Mackenzie in Art Deco style. It runs between the west side of Donegall Place and Fountain Street bordering Fountain Lane to the south. A modern flat roof stucture of panelled metal with stepped pediments to Donegall Place and Fountain Avenue sits over original entablature. Rainwater goods are unseen within structure. Walls are painted, lined render, rusticated to the first floor; a moulded cornice and plain frieze terminates top and base of masonry and similarly runs at first floor window head level. The ground floor is faced with black marble. The windows are flat lintelled, some with stepped reveals and occasional exaggerated keystones. Windows are replacement 2 and 6 pane timber frames with top hung lights. The ground floor shop front and entrance door are patent glazing. The main east elevation is symmetrical, 9 windows wide, those flanking the central window are narrower. The central section projects slightly, framed by a full height rope moulding bound by ribbons. A balconette with solid render panels projects on curved brackets below the third floor windows, the first floor central window is recessed in a shallow arch with exaggerated keystone. The side sections are framed by shallow giant pilasters with cartouche 'capitals', balconettes project below the second floor windows. The plain frieze to the ground floor has metal lettering in the central section FOUNTAIN HOUSE with the number 19 at each side. The south elevation is abutted by three storey building, above which one fourth floor uPVC window sits within a panel of lined render. The remaining elevation is of yellow brick. The west elevation is 9 windows wide with a matching pattern to the east elevation, each bay of three windows is slightly recessed. The second floor central window is recessed in a round arch with exaggerated keystone; the first floor side windows are separated by plain render pilasters. Metal lettering FOUNTAIN HOUSE flanked by 34 is positioned in a slightly projecting central section of the ground floor frieze. The north elevation is 21 windows wide. The 4 window wide section to the east is framed by pilasters with cartouche capitals and projecting cornice, the western two window bay is framed by plain pilasters and projecting cornice. A balconette projects below the 4 first floor eastern windows. Lettering FOUNTAIN LANE in ground floor frieze at each corner. Setting Fountain House forms the end of a terraced block on the west side of the busy Donegall Place, turning the corner on to the narrow pedestrian Fountain Lane and again on to Fountain Street. Schedule: Roof: replacement metal cladding Walls: render Windows: replacement timber RWGs: unseen.