Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
68-76 North Street
Belfast, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- No type recorded
- Address
- 68-76 North Street, Belfast
- Council
- Belfast
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.60153, -5.93042
- HB reference
- HB26/50/288
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Three storey building built c.1885 in red brick with curved return into Lower Garfield Street, corner turret, tall slender chimneys and irregularly spaced gable dormers. Main ground floor has a well preserved pub frontage with the monogram JD (for John Donnelly who founded The Deer’s Head pub here after the development of Garfield Street c.1885) on a red sandstone escutcheon, and door heads with drapes and vines below scrolled broken pediments. Stone balcony on three corbels at corner of second floor; plain sash windows; small arches break through parapet for rainwater.
Historical information
N/A
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Three storey building late Victorian built c.1885 in red brick. Although of some local interest, it is not among the best examples of the type and did not merit a full survey.
Nearby in the register
- 56-60 North Street and 2-10 Lower Garfield StreetShop - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 63-73 Royal AvenueOfficeunder 1 mi
- 81-87 Royal AvenueShopunder 1 mi
- 12-14 Lower Garfield StreetPublic House - Terraceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.