81-87 Royal Avenue, Belfast, County Antrim, BT1 1FE

A four storey commercial building, with attic, originally dated 1888, in simple Victorian Classical style. It sits in a continuous terrace on the east side of Royal Avenue. Pitched roof unseen behind parapet, pitched dormers with slate-hung sides; brick chimneys with stepped cornice to centre (rebuilt) and south gable. Rainwater goods hidden within construction. Walls of stretcher bonded red brick (parapet and dormers of different brick to lower floors and evidence of new brickwork to all lintels) with giant order pilasters and gauged brick; sandstone dormer pediments with block and ball finial and 1888 date stone to the main dormer, dormer string courses, dentilled cornices to eaves and ground floor, string courses at cill levels, moulded hoods to first floor windows, stone plaque with 'Ashling Buildings 1999' incised. Gablets over black granite rusticated and fluted pilasters to ground floor. Window openings to attic are flat brick arches, to other floors shallow segmental brick arches with dropped keystones to second and third floor. Windows to attic and third floor are uPVC, to first and second floor are replacement sashes 1/1 with horns, ground floor replacement shop windows. West elevation has 5 dormers, the second from the north gable has 3 windows, the remaining single windows. The fourth floor has 15 windows grouped in threes, the first and second floor have 11 windows reflecting the rhythm of the gables 2:3:2:2:2. The entrance is now incorporated in the shop front. The north elevation is abutted and obscured by HB26/50/186. The east elevation is all new brick construction with an external metal staircase covered by corrugated sheeting. The south elevation is abutted and obscured by a terraced building of equal height. Setting 87 sits directly on the east side pavement of the busy commercial Royal Avenue. The terraced building is adjoined to the north by listed building HB26/50/186, it faces listed buildings HB26/50/182, HB26/50/183 and HB26/50/184. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Red brick Windows: timber/uPVC. RWG: Hidden