103-107 Royal Avenue &, 77-79 North Street, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT1 1FF

Corner-sited terraced multi-bay three-storey with attic stucco commercial building, dated 1883, to the designs of Thomas Jackson. Irregular on plan facing west onto Royal Avenue with a curved elevation turning onto North Street. Extensively refurbished c.1989. Mansard slate roof, lead-lined to the steep front pitch and curved to the corner with several tall profiled rendered chimneystacks and gable walls rising above the roofline with sandstone coping. Roof set behind balustraded parapet wall punctuated by a series of pedimented dormer windows. Cast-iron downpipes positioned between paired pilasters. Painted rendered walling with fluted pilasters framing each window to each floor. The central curved section of the elevation is framed by paired pilasters surmounted by console brackets and segmental pediments, corresponding to the raised gables. Full-span frieze and corbelled crown cornice over the second floor with egg-and-dart embellishments. Full-span dentilled cornice above frieze over the ground floor. Square-headed window openings throughout, largely tripartite with single-pane timber sash windows. First floor windows have alternating segmental and triangular pediments (to the central lights) supported on engaged Corinthian columns. Curved front elevation is eleven windows wide with a square-headed door opening to the north end, a glazed shopfront and a further pedimented door opening with replacement timber door. The remainder of the ground floor consists of a series of fixed-pane glazed shopfronts flanked by replacement engaged Ionic columns and frieze. North side elevation abutted by adjoining building No.112 (HB26/50/066A). Two rear elevations set at right angles to each other having cement rendered walling with square-headed window openings and timber sash windows. Largely abutted by later extensions. East side elevation abutted by adjoining building having a redbrick gable rising above the neighbouring building. Setting: Located on the junction of Royal Avenue and North Street with a curved elevation in the former commercial heart of Belfast. Roof: Natural slate / lead RWG : Cast-iron Walling: Painted stucco Windows: Single-pane timber sash