3 Donegall Street, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT1 2FF

A terraced four storey, with attic, Italianate building with Mannerist decoration, designed by William Hastings, 1876, sitting hard on the pavement to the east side terrace of Donegall Street. The mansard roof of modern metal sheeting with square dormer windows sits behind a stone framed parapet with iron arcading within openings. Walls are stucco with moulded decorations: circles to attic, string courses, window architraves with base stops and blocked keystones. The front elevation is divided by articulated pilasters defining each bay with varying decoration to each floor level: topped by ball finials, to the parapet a moulded scroll with guilloche motif; third floor a slender pink granite column on tall base with varying foliate capitals; to second floor an inverted steeply tapering pilaster with geometric motif; to first floor foliate imposts and motifs; ground floor is a plain rendered fascia and window surrounds. Window openings to the third floor are square headed; the second floor are segmental arches; the first floor have round arches. The dormer windows are single pane metal, all others are replacement 1/1 timber sashes, ground floor has full height glazed openings. A fire exit door is of flush timber. The west elevation is symmetrical, 4 windows wide with a fire exit door in the left bay. The north elevation is abutted and obscured by a 5 storey building of equal height. The east elevation is partially obscured by a modern building adjoining at ground floor level. The original rear elevation has a four storey return, the walls are brick with segmental arched window openings with replacement windows. The south elevation is abutted and obscured by HB26/50/246. Setting The building sits on the east side of Donegall Street near a major intersection in the Cathedral Quarter defined by listed buildings, HB26/50/245 adjoining to the south, facing across Donegall Street the Northern Bank (Old Assembly Rooms) (HB26/50/61) and on the other side of Waring Street the Northern Whig (HB26/50/60). Roof: metal cladding Walls: stone Windows: timber RWG: not seen