8 Fitzwilliam Street, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT9 6AW

8 Fitzwilliam Street, Belfast

A three-storey late Georgian style terrace house of approximately 1849, situated at the west end of a short block of four matching properties on the east end of the south side of Fitzwilliam Street. The block is positioned between QUB Student's Union to the south and University Road (with Lanyon's original university building) to the west. The front façade faces north.

The ground floor features a four-panel timber door with rectangular fanlight with margin panes on the left. The doorway has a thin pilaster jamb to the right and a much thicker pilaster to the left, which acts as a pier between this and the doorway of No. 6. Above the doorway is a hood mounted on simple, somewhat functional-looking metal brackets. The hood merges with that of No. 6's doorway and has timber cladding to its edge with a simple cornice. Two steps lead to the doorway. To the right of the doorway are two windows with plain sash frames with Georgian panes (six over six) and moulded surrounds. The ground floor level is finished in rusticated render with a chamfered base and cill band.

The first floor has two similar windows without surrounds, spaced more widely apart and not in line with the ground floor windows. These windows rest on a cill band. The second floor has two windows similar to and in line with those of the first floor, only slightly shorter. The rest of the front façade is finished in brick and is topped with a dentilled cornice. The west gable is blank and finished in plain, painted render.

The rear façade of the entire terrace is finished in plain, unpainted cement render. No. 8 shares a low, two-storey gabled return with No. 6. The west face of the return has a plain sheeted doorway on the ground floor to the left, with two windows to the right. These windows have modern timber frames and security bars. To the far left on the first floor is a small, plain sash window, also with security bars. The south-facing gable end of the return has a single canted first-floor oriel window to the right (belonging to No. 6) and a single sash window to the left belonging to No. 8. This window has Georgian panes as the front façade.

The main rear façade of No. 8 has a sash window to the left at each floor, all in line, with that to the second floor slightly shorter than the rest. The ground floor and first-floor windows have security bars. To the right of these windows and above the return are two stairwell landing windows. The upper window is much shorter and sited close to the eaves. All rear windows have sash frames with Georgian panes (mainly six over six apart from the small upper stairwell window which has three panes over three), with the upper sash of the first-floor window plain.

The roof of the terrace is gabled and finished in Bangor blue slate with rendered parapets to each gable. The building has a chimney stack in brick to the west, which is pot-less. The roof of the return is made up of two gabled roofs with a valley in between, hidden behind an all-encompassing end gable. Both are covered in Bangor blue slate and have a brick-built stack to the end gable with one original-looking octagonal pot. The roof of the return has a Velux window to its inner side. Each property has a small Velux window to the rear of the main roof. Cast iron rainwater goods serve the main building, with mainly PVC rainwater goods to the return. A high rendered wall encloses the yard to the rear.