1 Victoria Square, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT1 4QG

Attached corner-sited four-storey (with attic) red brick commercial building, built c.1893, to the designs of W.J. Gilliland, with red sandstone pub shopfront spanning the entire ground floor. Redeveloped c.2006 as part of the development of Victoria Square shopping centre. Rectangular on plan facing south with an octagonal plan corner tower and gabled five-storey east side elevation fronting onto Upper Church Lane. Pitched natural slate roofs with flat-roofed dormers set behind arcaded terracotta balustrade and large gabled wall-head dormers. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond with terracotta cornice to the base of the parapet and over the first floor having Giant Corinthian order red brick pilasters to the second and third floors. Single-pane timber sash windows throughout. Principal south elevation is fifteen windows wide with windows arranged in pairs. Deeply set gauged brick segmental-headed to the first floor, square-headed with red sandstone lintels to the second floor, gauged brick round-headed to the third floor. Shopfront comprises series of large display windows framed by large stop-chamfered red sandstone ashlar piers with foliate stops and decorative incised details supporting full-span painted fascia with dentilled cornice over. Full-height octagonal plan corner tower, detailed as per south elevation, corbelled out over ground floor level with decorative terracotta courses and panels. Terracotta festoons span the capitals of the pilasters while the tower is surmounted by a tapered slate roof and topped by a lead domed finial. Gabled east side elevation, detailed as per front elevation. Painted rendered rear elevation within Victoria Square shopping centre and abutted by steel glazed stair. Red brick west side elevation within Victoria Square shopping centre having steel I-beam lintels to fixed-pane glazing and glazed entrances to first and third floors. Setting Located at the junction of Victoria Street and Upper Church Lane and framing the east entrance to Victoria Square shopping centre. Roof : Natural slate RWG: Not seen Walling: Red brick / red sandstone Windows: Single-pane timber sash