Northern Bank, (FORMER CORN EXCHANGE), 1-9 VICTORIA ST., BELFAST

A three storey (entry level, trading hall level & extension level) corner building on the west side of Victoria Street turning the corner, and extending with modern addition, into Gordon Street. Designed in 1851 by Thomas Jackson in a Classical style. Set back third storey added with insertion to rear of façade in 2000. Modern third floor extension has flat roof, all sitting behind incised loopwork parapet whose piers are surmounted with arched gablets. Concealed parapet gutter. Walls are sandstone, largely band rusticated. Moulded, dentilled cornices with plain frieze runs under parapet and at ground floor level (all dentils replacements to ground floor); giant staged pilasters divide bays, two floral roundels to upper capitals, foliate brackets to ground floor. Windows to first floor have segmental arched heads, moulded architraves set in slightly recessed arches of ashlar stone; windows to ground floor are flat lintelled openings set in modern rusticated stonework panels between original pilasters. Windows are replacement timber sashes (10 pane to first floor, 4 pane to ground). Door is double 6 panelled timber with boarded-up overlight. The main east elevation is 5 windows wide. The entrance sits under the left hand, south first floor window; framed by Ionic in antis porchway. The side south elevation is a blank brick wall above the abutting modern building. The rear west elevation is abutted by the modern addition. The side north elevation is two windows wide and generally matches the east elevation except the incisions in the parapet are solid and, central over the parapet, sits a plaque with crossed corn sheaves flanked by volutes and surmounted by a flattened urn. The main entrance to the building is in the adjacent glazed section of the modern addition. Setting 1-9 Victoria Street sits directly on the pavement of the busy thoroughfare of Victoria Street to the west with a large paved area with modern sculptures to the north at the blocked end of Gordon Street. Diagonally across Waring Street on the opposite side of Victoria Street sit HB26/50/053 and HB26/50/056. Roof: Modern extension. Walling: Sandstone Windows: Timber RWG: Unseen.