Direct Wine Shipments, 5-7 Corporation Square, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT1 3AJ

Terraced symmetrical three-storey stucco-fronted building, built c.1860. Rectangular on plan facing north with three-storey rendered return and enclosed rear yard. Pitched corrugated iron roof with red brick chimneystack to the east. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted stucco rendered walling to front elevation, painted render to remaining elevations. Square-headed window openings with architrave surrounds and single-pane timber sash windows (unless otherwise stated). Symmetrical front elevation is three windows wide with a central recessed bay and parapet rising from stepped cornice. Both breakfronts have moulded quoins and continuous moulded sill courses to the second floor and framing the channel-rusticated ground floor with moulded plinth course. Tripartite window openings to both breakfronts having Doric moulded mullions. Replacement glazing to both ground floor display windows and a central stepped round-headed door opening flanked by a pair of large scrolled console brackets and a replacement timber door with plain fanlight. Door opens onto two limestone steps to the front pavement. East side elevation abutted by adjoining infill building, partially advanced with returning quoins and mouldings visible. Further square-headed door opening to the right with a replacment timber paneled door and overlight. Rear elevation abutted by gable-ended three-storey rendered return having a pitched corrugated iron roof, rendered walling and square-headed window and door openings with replacement windows and doors to the east elevation only fronting into a small paved yard with steel fire escape. Blank west side elevation with cornice and quoins returning from the front elevation. Suspended commercial bill board to the upper level and graffiti art to the ground floor. Setting Located on the south side of Corporation Square with the flyover M3 motorway curving along the rear site. Access to internal yard via a side street. Roof : profiled metal RWG : Cast-iron Walling: Painted stucco Windows: Timber