1 Donegall Street, 4-6 Waring Street, Belfast, County Antrim, BT1 2DX

A terraced four storey, with attic, Italianate building, 1872, designed by Thomas Jackson and Son, turning the corner of Waring Street and Donegall Street in the Cathedral Quarter of Belfast. The mansard roof of modern metal sheeting with square dormer windows sits behind a stone parapet. Walls are lined render with decorative mouldings, polished black granite columns to windows and grey granite columns with rendered bases to ground floor. Decoration includes moulded cornice, string courses between each floor and window architraves and hoods, motifs to blocked keystones, foliate imposts; the elevation is framed by pilasters varying at each level: foliate caiptals and acroterian to parapet level; moulded insets to second and third floor level, rusticated to first floor. Windows to third floor are square headed tri-partite; to second floor are bi-partite with segmental arches and a central slender column; first floor matches the second but with round arched heads. The ground floor has square columns (central, right to south elevation is new) with plain capitals supporting a plain frieze and dentilled cornice. Windows to dormers are single pane metal, to upper floors are replacement 1/1 timber sashes and to ground floor are modern shop windows. The corner entrance with modern double doors is recessed behind two cast iron columns. The south elevation is three sets of windows wide with one set of windows curving round the corner to the west. The ground floor has 7 columns (1:3:3). The west elevation matches the south except for the ground floor which has 4 equally spaced columns. The north elevation is abutted and obscured by HB26/50/245. The east elevation is abutted and obscured by a 5 storey modern rendered building of equal height. Setting The building forms a corner of a major intersection in the Cathedral Quarter sitting directly on the pavement on the north side of Waring Street, turning in to Donegall Street where it adjoins HB26/50/245. On the other side of Waring Street are HB26/50/259 and Northern Whig HB26/50/60, facing across Donegall Street is the Northern Bank (Old Assembly Rooms) HB26/50/61. Materials: Roof: metal cladding Walls: render Windows: replacement timber sash RWG: within construction.