113 Royal Avenue, Belfast, County Antrim, BT1 1FF

Terraced three storey stucco building with attic, built c.1885, with rusticated Portland limestone ground floor. Rectangular on plan facing west onto Royal Avenue. Extensively renovated c.2000, now in use as an arts centre and interconnected with No. 112 (HB26/50/066A). Steeply pitched natural slate roof with black angled ridge tiles, fronted by a panelled stucco parapet broken at centre by an aediculed dormer flanked by panelled pilasters supporting segmental pediment with dentil enrichment; moulded cornice on brackets. Walling is stucco to upper floors, over rusticated ground floor topped by moulded cornice on double dentil course. Windows are round-headed to ground and first floor; those to ground floor in deep coved keyblocked surrounds having moulded stone sills and granite aprons; those to first floor arcaded with continuous hood mould, foliate impost mouldings (plain to outer opes). Segmental second floor windows embedded in recessed openings flanked by colonnetes; flush cills over second string course. All windows are 1/1 timber sashes. Principal west-facing elevation is four windows wide to upper floors. Ground floor has three openings including entrance located to right side. Entrance comprises multi-panelled timber door with lugged Portland stone surround inset with panel to lintel bearing fixed letters ‘No 11’. Plain lintel cornice with semi-circular overlight having keystone. Paired windows to dormer. North side elevation abutted by adjoining building No. 114. Redbrick walls to the rear elevation, laid in English garden wall bond with gauged brick square-headed window openings and 2/2 timber sash windows. South side elevation abutted by adjoining building No.112 (HB26/50/066A). Setting: Street-fronted and located on the east side of Royal Avenue in Belfast city centre. Roof: Natural slate RWG : None Walling: Painted render / Portland limestone Windows: Single-pane timber sash