7-19 Royal Avenue, Belfast, County Antrim, BT1 1FB

A five storey commercial building on the east side of Royal Avenue. Built in 1881 in Italianate style. Pitched roof unseen. Rainwater pipes swan neck from gutters (material unidentified) penetrating wall at base of attic floor. Walls are painted render with mouldings: bracketted cornice over third floor, string to first and second cill level, giant semi-fluted Corinthian pilasters rise between second and third floors, rusticated pilasters to first floor, window architraves and aprons. Windows to fourth floor are flat lintelled; third floor windows have reeded stucco sides, foliate brackets, floral roundels and moulded cornices (with segmental to triplets windows, triangular pediments to single), coffered apron to cills; second floor windows match third floor but with no pediments or aprons to cills; first floor windows have lugged architraves, the single window matches the third floor. Ground floor shop fronts are modern with the exception of the northern one which is framed by rusticated and moulded pilasters. Over the doorway, supported on oversize foliate brackets, is a segmental arched pediment and foliate decorated frieze; sitting on the segmental arch, either side of a cartouche, are two figures - a gentleman with a forked beard holding a book and a woman with a pail. The windows to the top floors are 4 pane metal casements; the first floor windows are 3 pane timber. The door is timber double, six panelled. The west elevation is symmetrical around the central doorway with single windows above. The flanking window architraves are tripartite (6 in total); to the second and third floor they frame 2 windows with a central blank panel; to the first floor they frame 3 windows. The north elevation is abutted by a modern building. The rear east elevation is unseen. The south elevation is abutted by HB26/50/225A. Setting 7-19 Royal Avenue sits on the east side of the busy commercial Royal Avenue. To the south is HB26/50/225A which continues the same roofline, rhythm, materials and details. The building faces HB26/50/032, HB26/50/153, HB26/50/106, HB26/50/107 which are in line across Royal Avenue. Roof: unseen Walls: render Windows: uPVC RWGs: uPVC.