150-152 North Street, Belfast, BT1 1QS

An asymmetrical three-bay three-storey red brick commercial building with attic and ground floor shops, built c.1900, located at the corner of North Street and Smithfield, in central Belfast. Rectangular plan with C20 extension to ground floor rear. Pitched slate roof with raised verge and raised party wall between left bay and two right bays, crowned by red brick chimneystack with pots removed. Timber-framed dormer to left side. Mix of plastic and metal rainwater goods. Walling is English garden wall bonded red brick; a gablet spans the central and right bay; pilasters rise from first floor level to either side and between the central and left bay (reflecting internal arrangement). Panelled red brick parapet spanning façade over a gauged brick cornice. Windows are 1/1 timber sashes, with some timber casement replacements; those to first floor set in projecting reveals with entablature and drip mould over, resting on continuous cill; those to second floor having gauged brick reveals with sandstone keyblock and arabesque terracotta panelling over and projecting stone cills. Rear elevation windows are plainly detailed, with iron grilles. Principal elevation faces North. Ground floor shopped with (possibly original) fascia boxed in, divided by polished pink granite pilasters on polished black granite plinths; panelled timber capitals to pilasters, and cornice over. Late C20 windows and doors concealed by roller shutters. Upper floors have a single window to left bay, paired windows to right. East gable formerly abutted. Now exposed brick over cement render to first floor level. No openings; former fireplaces visible in exposed chimneybreasts, now infilled. Rear (S) elevation is plainly detailed, and abutted to ground floor by the extension; metal fie door to first floor; openings irregularly arranged. West gable fully abutted by 154-164 North Street (HB 26/50/317). Setting: Street fronted at the W end of North Street at the junction with Smithfield, one of a block of three late Victorian commercial buildings. Private car parking lot to rear, bounded by steel security fencing. Roof: Slate Walling: Brick Windows: Timber RWG: Aluminium