Malcolm Jewellers, 16-18 Chichester Street, Belfast, County Antrim, BT1 4LB

Four-storey building with Art Nouveau shopfront on the corner of Chichester Street and Arthur Street, dating from 1906 by Thomas Houston but later reclad in rustic brick. Pitched roof over part of the structure, Bangor blue slates with blue clay ridges, with squat wallhead chimneys in rustic brick. (A former courtyard at the NW corner has been roofed over to form a staircase, but roof is not visible). Brick walling. Generally metal casement windows in concrete frames. Front elevation to Chichester Street, facing south: Upper floors stretcher bond rustic brick with vertical soldier courses over single windows. First, second and third floors have similar fenestration: window with transom and mullion, blank bay, then three three-light metal casement windows with opening top lights, set in a concrete frame with projecting cill; blank bay, then another three-light window on the curved corner to Arthur Street. Projecting eaves and cornice over the ground floor shopfront frame this Modernist section. The shopfront is in a totally different style with Art Nouveau decoration including vertical rods in the fanlights over doors and pilasters after the style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Shopfront divided by vertical columns clad in black glazed brick with bases and baroque shields for capitals, one incorporating the rainwater downpipes. Door at W has art nouveau fanlight and undulating lintel carrying the legend "Chichester Buildings" in condensed Roman lettering. The double doors in the opening incorporate further detailing along with more conventional panels, but appear to be replacements. The main double doors (again modern replacements - the doorcase originally had deep reveals leading to a recessed single door) in the centre of the elevation are glazed with baroque main panels and triple upper panels glazed, and the doorcase has a convex broken pediment supporting a large clock face bearing Fred J Malcolm's name. Black granite stall risers and modern glazing to shop windows incorporating etched upper panels. Elevation to Arthur St: Similar to the front elevation, but with three equally spaced windows to upper floors and two pilasters between the end brick pilasters at the curved corner and the end of the building. Setting Before the refacing of the building it would have been echoed at the other end of its terrace by the curved corner and gables of Payne's Buildings at no.2. Now occupying a city centre corner site surrounded by buildings of various ages and styles. Roof: Slate Walls: brick Windows: steel Rwg: Cast metal