27-37 TALBOT ST., BELFAST

A four storey former warehouse building on the south side of Talbot Street. Built c.1900, it has elements of a Queen Ann Revival style. The pitched roof is natural slate, hipped to west, with a raised coping between two sections of building and modern rooflights. Rainwater goods are uPVC. The walls are brick laid in English garden wall bond with sandstone parapet coping, cornice, keystones and cills. Stone finials sit on scalloped parapet which rises to form a Dutch gable with exaggerated stone keystone, splayed brickwork to outer arch, inner arch and panel below of patterned diaper terracotta. Full height bullnose brick pilasters define bays, some corbelling out to form octagonal piers to parapet, all piers have brick pendants with moulded terracotta stops; brick strings run over lintels on each floor. The windows to the second and third floors are flat arches with bullnosed surrounds, continuous projecting cills; first floor windows are arched with exaggerated keystones and bullnosed surrounds, flush cills. Ground floor windows and doors are segmental arches with bullnosed reveals, flush cills. Windows are timber replacements; ground floor windows and doors are metal replacements. The front north elevation has a modern rooflight. The elevation is 13 windows wide (1/2/2/2/1/4/1). The windows are 2 or 3 pane top hung. The east elevation is abutted and obscured by a modern building. Rear south elevation is staggered, each of three sections is three window wide. All windows have segmental arches, openings are bullnosed brick. Openings with French windows have modern tubular metal, glazed balconettes. The windows are 2 or 4 pane casements. The west elevation is fully abutted by a modern building. Setting 27-37 Talbot Street sits directly on to the south side of Talbot Street facing the side of St. Anne’s Cathedral (HB26/50/027). Although Talbot Street is a narrow street the building can be seen from a distance across the car park to the rear of the Cathedral. Roof: natural slate. Walls: red brick Windows: timber RWGs: uPVC