Fort Bar, 25-27 Springfield Road, Edenderry, Belfast

Two storey with attic end terrace late Victorian public house with tapering plan form, two storey pitched rear return and two storey flat roofed extension to rear is located at the junction of the Springfield Road and Colligan Street. Pitched natural slate roof with angled ridge tiles and clipped and corbelled eaves; moulded gable chimneystack with clay pots. Cast iron rainwater goods. Walling is painted smooth render with continuous plinth, ground floor sill course and string courses to first floor. Windows are replacement timber casements on projecting masonry sills. The principle elevation faces south and is almost symmetrical. It comprises six openings to ground floor, each separated by paired pilasters supporting a continuous flat fascia (slightly breakfront over entrance) with dentilled overhanging cornice and paired bracketed gablet ends. Entrance is left of centre and comprises paired timber panelled doors with square headed overlight of etched glass. The entrance is flanked by two identical bays comprising large replacement timber windows (two diminutive panes surmount a large bottom pane) over aprons embellished with geometrically designed moulding. To far right is a doorway with a paired louvred overlight. First floor comprises a large tripartite window slightly left of entrance door; bowed 12 pane timber window flanked by six pane windows and separated by fluted mullions. Entire opening flanked by fluted pilasters rising to string course and surmounted by moulded and fluted surround. To left is a blocked up opening; to right is a 1/1 window. Setting Set at the end of a commercial terrace directly off the Springfield Road at the junction with Colligan Street in a residential area. Two and a half storey terrace to south; two storey dwellings to north.