4-8 Church Lane, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT1 4QN

A three-storey five-bay rendered terraced building in late Georgian style with shopped ground floor facing Church Lane. Pitched slate roof with blue clay ridge tiles; no chimneys. Ruled and lined rendered walling. Upper floors have 6/6 d/h timber sash windows (three windows over nos.4-6 and two above no.8) with projecting cills. Ground floor shopfront incorporates separate door at no.4 (modern flush door behind roller shutter) leading to the first floor over the shop at no.6. Principal west elevation comprises double-fronted shop with plate glass windows over rendered stall risers with slender fluted pilasters on bases. Door and window of similar design to no.8. Shop sign on canted glass fascia with gold lettering at no.6. Rear elevation rendered without windows and includes a small lean-to extension bringing the building out to the stone rubble wall of St George’s Church (HB26/50/045). Setting: Although now obscured by rendering, Church Lane contains a number of similar related late Georgian structures which back onto St George’s churchyard, indicating the densely-packed nature of the city at that time. Walls: Rendered Windows: Timber Roof: natural slate RWG: Cast iron.