Garage / Shop ('Europcar'), 159-161 University Street, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT7 1HR

Relatively small single storey terrace garage / shop of perhaps c.1930 with gabled roof on Belfast Trusses, and stepped parapet to front. The property is set on the S side of University Street, close to the the junction with Ormeau Road. The shop is set between two much taller earlier houses (now offices). It is rectangular in plan form and measures roughly 16.7m x 11.2. The front (N) elevation has two relatively large vehicle doorways to centre-right and left with roller shutters. To right is a squat window with recent frame. Above the shop front the roughcast façade rises into a stepped (somewhat ‘Art-Deco’ style) parapet with plain coping. Just below parapet level is a small recent internally illuminated shop sign with a another laminated sign below this (above the central doorway). The writers were unable to gain access to the back to see the rear elevation. The roof could not be seen from outside but internal observation suggests it is actually pitched, (i.e. it is a regular gable), though supported on Belfast Trusses! Internal evidence also shows that it is covered in corrugated metal and has two parallel rooflights with corrugated Perspex glazing.