5-11 Lombard Street, Belfast, BT1 1RB

An attached three storey with attic nine bay Victorian stucco building built 1874 to designs by Thomas Jackson & Son for English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association (currently in mixed use) located on the east side of Lombard Street in the centre of Belfast. Rectangular on plan facing east. Pitched natural slate roof with central chimneystack; parapet gutters with circular cast-iron downpipes. Walling is stucco with some stone details such as Dalbeatie granite door surrounds and columns at first floor level. Series of arched windows at first floor level and variously grouped windows at second floor. Plain parapet above moulded cornice; central segmental pedimented dormer flanked by smaller dormers. Windows are painted timber 1/1 sliding sashes on masonry cills. Principal (west) elevation ground floor has modern shop fronts of plate glass (of no interest) flanked by four-panelled timber doors with segmental over-light within chamfered granite door surrounds. Granite panelled pilasters with chamfered base and plain capital flank each door and divide the shop units (mostly obscured by oversized modern signage). Cornice of entablature above forms a continuous cill course for the first floor windows. First floor arched windows with panelled pilasters between with ornately carved capitals which form the imposts to the arches. Arches are moulded with projecting keystone and plain frieze above. Stepped and moulded quoins at corners of building. Second floor has grouped windows (3,2,1,2,3) on continuous moulded cill course. Panelled pilasters with foliate capitals flanking window groups with continuous drip moulding and projecting keystone over each group. Inset granite columns with foliate sandstone capital and octagonal base separate windows within each group. Foliate string course at capital level with moulded quoins to corners of building, even below and stepped above. Projecting bracketed cornice at eaves level (panels between brackets) with raised parapet above and plain coping. Attic storey has large central segmental pedimented dormer comprising three openings flanked by smaller dormers with single opening and triangular pediment, all with plain tympanum and plain strap mouldings over. North elevation is abutted by adjoining listed building (HB26/50/282). South elevation is abutted by adjoining building. Rear (east) elevation is abutted at ground floor by adjoining building. Exposed section has projecting stairwell end bays. Red brick English garden wall bond rear wall with various window openings on each floor level of exposed wall. Setting The former English & Scottish Law Life Assurance Association building (currently in mixed use) is located to the east side of the pedestrianised Lombard Street in the centre of Belfast. It is adjacent to and south of the listed building (HB26/50/282). Roof: Natural slate Walling Stucco/granite Window: Timber RWG: Cast-iron