25-27 Donegall Place, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT1 5AB

Terraced three-storey stucco-fronted former house, built c.1790, with replacement shopfront inserted to the ground floor. Rectangular on plan facing east onto Donegall Place. Pitched natural slate roof with moulded cast-iron guttering to dentilled eaves course and cast-iron box hopper and downpipe. Painted rendered walling with string course over the second floor and a single console bracket to the north. Square-headed window openings with architrave surrounds, painted masonry sills and single-pane timber sash windows. East front elevation is three windows wide with a continuous sill course to the second floor and decorative heads to the first floor only. Fluted friezes with central rosettes surmounted by pediments, triangular to the central window, segmental to the outer windows. Stone-clad glazed shopfront inserted c.2000 with a square-headed door opening to the right having aluminium glazed door providing access to the top floor. South side elevation abutted by adjoining building (HB26/50/228A). Rear elevation abutted by full-height flat-roofed rendered extension. North side elevation abutted by adjoining commercial building (HB26/50/197). Setting: Located on the west side of Donegall Place and forming part of a terrace of commercial buildings of various heights and dates. The rear of the site is occupied by an early twentieth-century industrial red brick building, now occupied by Queens Arcade (HB26/50/228B). Roof: Natural slate RWG: Cast-iron Walling: Painted render Windows: Single-pane timber sash