58 Wellington Place, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT1 6GF

Terraced four-storey rendered former townhouse, built c.1830, with Art Nouveau shopfront and first floor window surround inserted c.1900. Rectangular on plan facing north onto Wellington Place as part of a terrace of former houses. Natural slate roof with cement ridge tiles and replacement profiled red brick chimneystack with clay pots to the west party wall. Roof set behind blocking course and eaves cornice. Painted ruled-and-lined cement rendered walling with painted rusticated quoins. Square-headed window openings with architrave surrounds, concrete sills and timber casement windows (c.1900). Four-storey north elevation is two windows wide with a full-span thermal window to the first floor formed in deeply moulded gauged red brick and decorative panelled sandstone keystones. First floor surmounted by a large modillioned sandstone cornice over pulvinated frieze flanked by a pair of obelisk finials rising from corbelled and fluted shafts and mosaic tiled spandrel panels. Original tripartite fixed-pane timber display window with slender colonettes to the mullions. Advanced glazed timber shopfront with curved corners surmounted by a decorative pulvinated frieze, fluted lead-lined cornice and a central square panel framing a decorative disc depicting musical instruments. To the right is a recessed square-headed door opening providing access to the upper floors having an early twentieth-century timber panelled and glazed door and rectangular overlight, opening onto a terrazzo tiled area. East side elevation abutted by adjoining infill building. Rear elevation not seen. West side elevation abutted by adjoining building No.60-69 (HB26/50/319B). Setting Terminating a terrace houses lining the south side of Wellington Place. Roof: Natural slate RWG: Not seen Walling: render Windows : Timber