20 May Street, Belfast, County Antrim, BT1 4NR

A three storey, mid 19th century Georgian style terraced house, with side entrance, terminating a group of four, sitting directly on the N side of May Street. Pitched, natural slate roof with modern rooflight; moulded metal gutter on bracketted timber gutter tray; round cast iron downpipe; brick chimney to east gable. Red Flemish bond brickwork; stucco eaves fascia, string course to first floor cill and the remains of rusticated stucco plinth surrounding ground floor cill. Window openings, to upper floors, with painted stucco reveals and flat brick arches, uPVC windows. The entrance doorway, with segmental arch, has a stucco moulded surround with inset Ionic doorcase, original fanlight with curved glazing bars over and replacement 6 panelled door; it is approached by 2 sandstone steps. Across frontage is stone kerb. S elevation has entrance to the west side. Ground floor windows have been removed to form large, multi-paned shop window with modern timber architrave. First and second floors have 2 windows. W elevation abutted by adjoining terrace (HB26/50/175C). N elevation has a three storey, pitched roof extension to the right with an adjoining single storey flat roofed modern extension extending to the gable with entrance door. Walls are cement rendered. Windows are 6/6 original timber sashes: the original rear wall has a single window to first and second floors; the extension has 2 windows to the two upper floors of the return wall and a first floor window to the gable, a smaller ground floor gable window is shuttered. E elevation abutted by John Ross & Co. (HB26/30/017). Setting May Street is part of a busy, central thoroughfare which passes to the rear of the City Hall (HB26/50/001A). No. 16 sits opposite May Street Presbyterian church (HB26/30/301A&B). In the same terrace, adjoining the terraced group of four to the east, is John Ross & Co (HB26/30/017), nearby to the west is B.T. Shields (HB26/50/020). Roof: natural slate. Walling: brick. Windows: timber . RWG: metal,