63-73 Royal Avenue, 7-13 Lower Garfield Street, Belfast, County Antrim, BT1

Four storey building, with attic, on the corner of Royal Avenue and Garfield Street. Built in 1883, designed by Young and Mackenzie in Baroque style. Roof is pitched slate, conical roofed corner turret with weather vane. Rainwater pipes are cast iron. Brick chimney with rendered coping. The walls are of English garden wall bonded red brick, parapet with dormers, giant pilasters at corners; semi-circular rendered dormer heads with decorated tympanum, dentilled string at eaves level, moulded strings and architraves. The dormer windows are flat arched with exaggerated render keystones; those to the turret are semi-circular arches with moulded pilasters and archivolts, exaggerated keystones, centred over are occuli with rendered surrounds. The third floor openings are shallow segmental arches with rendered architraves and exaggerated keystones; second floor are semi-circular arches with fluted pilasters, foliate capitals, moulded archivolts, exaggerated keystones and sunrise tympanum; the first floor windows are flat-lintelled full-storey height and full width between fluted pilasters with zoomorphic decorated panels and foliate capitals. The windows are metal frame replacements to upper floors, timber replacements to first floor. The ground floor fascia and shop fronts are modern replacements. The west elevation is 8 windows wide (3/2/3) with 3 dormers, the curved corner of 3 windows is to the south. The south elevation is 8 windows wide with 4 dormers. The east elevation is plain brickwork with flat arched windows, 4 in width. Setting This building occupies the north corner of busy 65-73 Royal Avenue and pedestrian 7-13 Garfield Street. The corner turret is a landmark looking north along Royal Avenue. Within the same block on the east side of Royal Avenue are HB26/50/185 and HB26/50/186. Roof: natural slate Walls: brick Windows: metal RWGs: cast iron.