25-33 Donegall Place, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT1 5FE

Symmetrical multi-bay four-storey stucco-fronted commercial building, built c.1880, to the designs of James F. Mackinnon, remodelled c.1930 to the designs of P.J. Wellwood and refurbished with shopfronts inserted c.2000. Rectangular on plan and fronting east onto Donegall Place with a central opening providing access to Queen’s Arcade (HB26/50/228B). Pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded ridge tiles and pair of hipped roofs to rear projections of the rear. Pair of copper-clad pavilion roofs to either end bay having decorative wrought-iron cresting. Painted stucco rendered walls throughout. Square-headed window openings with steel casement windows. Symmetrical east front elevation is six windows wide with a central gable rising above the parapet wall and a further diminutive gablet to either end bay. The central gablet has a corbelled out central pier clasped by colonettes flanked by foliate panels and supporting a sculpted miniature chateau to the apex resting on a moulded base. Below the gable is a diamond-shaped plaque with monogram below; ‘AR’. Clock face to the centre of facade at second floor level. Continuous corbelled sill courses at each level. Pilasters rising from the first floor to parapet level as squat piers to all but central bay, surmounted by ball finials and framing iron rails. Third floor window openings have corbelled reveals and decorative cornice supported on console brackets. Second floor windows have continuous hood mouldings with foliate keystones. First floor windows are set within stop-chamfered round-headed surrounds having decorative overpanels, arch mouldings rising from impost mouldings and continuous string course over having foliate spandrels over the arches. Replacement hardwood shopfronts to the ground floor with central splayed entrance to the arcade all framed by replacement timber pilasters with gableted console brackets and full-span fascia over. South side elevation abutted by adjoining late twentieth-century building. Rear elevation abutted by arcade (HB26/50/228B) and a flat-roofed three-storey accretion. Square-headed window openings with single-pane timber sash windows. North side elevation abutted by adjoining building No.27 (HB26/50/030). Setting Forming part of a terrace of commercial buildings of various dates and heights facing east onto Donegall Place. Roof: Natural slate RWG : steel Walling: stucco Windows: Steel & timber