Queens Arcade, Donegall Place, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT1 5AB

Top-lit double-height arcade running on an east-west axis, built c.1880, accessed via ground floor to No's. 29-33 Donegall Place, opening onto Fountain Street via a symmetrical two-storey block (possibly built c.1930) and flanked by a multi-bay three-storey connecting wing to the south and a multi-bay two-storey wing to the north. Extensively modernised c.1932 with Art Deco shopfronts inserted to the designs of Sage of London. Pitched natural slate roof to the west block and connecting wings, shallow pitched glazed roof to the central arcade with lead ridge and lead-lined valleys. Cast-iron rainwater goods to the connecting wings. Painted rendered walling throughout. Square-headed window openings with masonry sills and single-pane timber sash windows (unless otherwise stated). Principal entrance to arcade via the central bay of No's.29-33 Donegall Place with replacement hardwood shopfront and pair of fluted masonry piers to the street. Secondary entrance to arcade via symmetrical two-storey rendered west block, five windows wide with a central recessed topped by pedimented parapet with thermal window opening over arcade entrance abutted by a glazed steel canopy (c.2000). Stepped segmental-head window openings to the first floor with keystones (windows boarded up) set within square-headed recesses and a full-span sill course forming the cornice over the ground floor. Tall square-headed window openings to the ground floor flanked by Doric pilasters with replacement timber-framed display windows. Segmental-headed door opening to the right, detailed as per first floor windows with replacement double-leaf timber doors, rendered lintel and plain overlight. Setting Set on an east-west axis and running between Donegall Place to the east and Fountain Street to the west. Roof: Natural slate/glazed RWG : Cast-iron Walling: Render Windows: timber