Irish News Office, 113 Donegall Street, Belfast, County Antrim, BT1 2GE

A three-storey four-bay building set slightly forward of the building line in Donegall Street, of red brick with painted stone or stucco enrichments, designed by J J McDonnell in 1905. Roof probably corrugated iron (front slope not visible) with deep stucco parapet to the front over modillion crown cornice. Redbrick walling laid in Flemish bond. Timber casement windows. Front elevation faces west. Upper floors red brick with splayed soldier courses over windows; giant order brick pilasters rising through first and second floors to plain capitals and through the cornice into the parapet. Parapet approximately 1m high above deep moulded and dentilled cornice with wave parapets at each end. Windows (mostly pairs of casements with mid-rails, but with tripartite windows in slightly arched opes in outer second floor bays) have narrow stone keystones and projecting cills. First floor keystones linked by moulded string course between floors. Painted stucco or stone ground floor falls into three irregular bays divided by panelled pilasters, the left and central bays further divided by pilasters, running from plinth to entablature. Entrance door at extreme left, other bays divided into vertical windows with top lights. Entablature over ground floor projects deeply and is supported on dentils, the central portion rising in an arc to enclose the name "IRISH NEWS Ltd." Plinth panelled between pilasters over plain base. Side elevations of the main building are rendered where above neighbouring buildings. The rear elevation is abutted by a later additional pile, gabled and of redbrick, with a series of casement windows; this is further abutted by a series of single storey gabled blocks, all fronted to car park at north by a redbrick wall with modern openings. Setting Street fronted to Donegall Street, north of Belfast city centre, surrounded by generally modern buildings. Roof: Corrugated metal Walling: Brick Windows: Timber RWG: Not known