'David Alexander Builders' Merchant', 136-210 Tennent Street, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT13 3GG

Large and somewhat altered builders’ merchant’s warehouse of perhaps c.1910 -with painted brick and render façade and Belfast Truss roof- which may have originally been two separate buildings. The property is set within a ‘terrace’ on the W side of Tennent Street, off Shankill Road, to the NW of Belfast city centre. The building has a long rectangular plan form and measures roughly 52m x 14, and is entered via a large vehicle doorway on the E elevation of the neighbouring building to N (which is internally integrated with this building). Only the long E elevation is visible from the street. This elevation is in a mixture of painted brick and painted render. To the left hand side of the elevation there are outlines of what were once tall segmental headed window openings, all now totally blocked up. The centre / right hand section has ten tall semicircular headed windows with mullioned and transomed frames glazed only within the arched portion of each (ie at the top of each window). Internal evidence shows that the lower third of all of the windows is actually blocked up behind the frame. The variation in the shape of the window openings suggests this building was originally two separate properties. The elevation has a deep, rendered eaves course. Only a small upper portion of the S gable is still visible; this is in a mixture of red brick and concrete (breeze block-like) bricks with timber cladding to the gable area itself. The rear elevation was not accessible to the writers. The curved roof is covered in corrugated metal to the S ‘half’ at least, the N ‘half’ of the roof could not be seen, but internal evidence suggests it is also in corrugated metal. Internal evidence also shows that there is a long central roof light with corrugated Perspex. A noticeable ‘join’ in the roof reinforces the idea that this building was once two separate properties.