68-76 North Street, Belfast

Three storey building built c.1885 in red brick with curved return into Lower Garfield Street, corner turret, tall slender chimneys and irregularly spaced gable dormers. Main ground floor has a well preserved pub frontage with the monogram JD (for John Donnelly who founded The Deer’s Head pub here after the development of Garfield Street c.1885) on a red sandstone escutcheon, and door heads with drapes and vines below scrolled broken pediments. Stone balcony on three corbels at corner of second floor; plain sash windows; small arches break through parapet for rainwater.