Former Water Office - Donegall Square, Belfast, UK
N 54° 35.847 W 005° 55.743
30U E 310788 N 6053941
This building, formerly the Water Office and a warehouse, now houses a branch of Marks & Spencer. It is located opposite City Hall in the north east corner of Donegall Square in Belfast.
Waymark Code: WM11EAP
Location: Ulster, Ireland
Date Posted: 10/07/2019
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The Department for Communities website tells us about the building:
Attached symmetrical multi-bay four-storey over raised basement red sandstone Italian Gothic palazzo-style former warehouse, built c.1870, to the designs of William H. Lynn. Built as a warehouse, and later the headquarters of the Water Commissions, this exercise in Gothic Revival architecture borrows from French, Florentine and Venetian Gothic traditions resulting in an eclectic city centre palazzo in a loosely Ruskinian idiom. While compromised by the loss of the original interior and other details, its original character survives and it remains a good representative of the type and of the mid to late Victorian commercial buildings that line Donegall Square. The history of changing use is of much interest and it is also a significant example of the work of a noteworthy architectural practice.
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