- Building type: Shop
- Date of construction: 1902
- Architect: Young & Mackenzie
- Listing: B1
- HB/SMR Ref: HB26/50/016
- 2nd Survey by EHS: No
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Ocean Buildings, 1-3 Donegall Square East/1-3 Chichester Street, Belfast
Belfast City
Gothic style, 5 storey corner building with wide Tudoresque doorway on corner. Elaborate tracery windows on all floors and many carvings including mermaids holding lighthouses on shields. Canted bays from 2nd to 4th floors with balconies on top, mixture of short towers and turrets on top and balustrade (sometimes blind)
| Stone Type Category: | Red Sandstone |
| Primary Stone Type: | Ballochmoyle Sandstone |
| Secondary Stone Type: | Connemara Marble |
| Other Stone Type: | Portland Limestone |
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| Stonework Construction: | Coursed plain ashlar |
| Stonework Condition: | Sandstone blockwork is in reasonable condition but with some evidence of block deterioration and surface loss through bedding-plane erosion and granular disintegration. |
| Condition Assessment (QUB): | 1 |
