McHughs Bar, 31-33 Queens Square, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT1 3FG

An attached three-storey with attic over basement early eighteenth-century terraced house with three-bay three-storey frontage and original gable contained within a modern public house extension. Rectangular plan facing north onto Queen’s Square, formerly the Town Dock. Roof is pitched natural slate with cast-iron rainwater goods over stepped corbelled eaves. Walling is painted lime render to external elevation; original gable (now contained within a modern bar extension) is of bricknogging with handmade bricks. S-profile tie-bar ends to upper floors of external elevation. All original timbers are sawn pine. Windows are replacement exposed box 6/6 timber sashes with modern ‘crown effect’ glazing set in plain reveals with projecting stone cills. Modern traditional-style pubfront to ground floor. Principal elevation faces north and is three windows wide to upper floors; pubfront with timber pilasters, handpainted fascia, framing multi-paned timber windows over rendered stallrisers; timber doors to centre (half-glazed) and right side. East gable is abutted by an adjoining modern building. Rear elevation is contained within the modern public house, and is rendered, with modern feature window inserted. West gable is contained within the triple-height extension of the modern public house, retained as a feature wall. It is rendered to ground floor, and consists of a longitudinal frame, slightly curved in profile, infilled with handmade brick to beam at original eaves level. Embedded into the wall above is a butt-jointed king post truss with struts and tied with iron cramps, above which the wall rises to present roof level with former gable opening at left infilled with brick. Setting The original building is partially contained within a modern public house extension to side (west) and to rear, from which the original gable can be viewed from a series of galleries. The building is street fronted on reclaimed land, now Queens Square, formerly Hanover Quay. Opposite (to north) is the Custom House (HB26/50/062), and to rear is Oxford Street Bus Centre. Roof: Slate Walling: Brick nogging/rendered Windows: timber RWG: Cast iron