St Patrick's Parochial House, 199 Donegall Street, Belfast, County Antrim, BT1 2FL

Three-storey red brick Georgian terrace house on Donegall Street, with hipped return, dating from c. 1820. Roof of Bangor Blue slates with blue clay ridge tiles and corbelled red brick chimneys with red clay pots; cast iron rainwater goods. Front elevation: Red brick laid in Flemish bond with corbelled eaves. Plastic windows with mid rails. At 2nd floor windows have simple moulded architraves and projecting cills; at first floor windows are similar but with continuous cill course; and at ground floor windows are tripartite and set within segmental headed opes. Upper floors are four bay, ground floor is three bay with central doorcase. The doorcase is slightly recessed with plain Ionic columns on bases supporting entablature and moulded surround with five-petal spiderweb fanlight. Front door clad with polished brass with moulded panels top and bottom, matching ironmongery and nameplate. Rear elevation: A complex of three-storey return and two storey outshot, the latter with a chamfered corner at ground floor. Returns all built of brighter brick than the original rear elevation. with cast iron rainwater goods and similar plastic windows. E Elevation: Built before the tightly adjacent church, the view of this elevation is restricted, but has similar design to the front elevation, three storeys high and five bays long with central doorcase. Windows all plastic with midrail, with plastered reveals. The doorcase has a deep panelled reveal and slender moulded surround, sidelights and segmental spiderweb fanlight above slender doorhead. There is a change of brickwork on the front elevation which indicates two dates of construction, and this is echoed in slight change of levels internally along the spine wall separating the E side of the house from the central staircase. Since this building predates the present church, it is possible that the E elevation was the original front elevation and that when the church was built alongside it the new front elevation to Donegall Street was established. Setting: Part of a rare surviving group of Georgian and early Victorian buildings ranging from Clifton House (HB26/49/001) to St Patrick's School (HB26/50/077C), and contiguous with the early Victorian 201-205 Donegall Street (HB26/50/85). Schedule of materials: Roof: Slated Walls: Red brick Windows: Plastic RWG: Cast iron