[Extracts from the Joy Street list by C E B Brett and R McKinstry, published by the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society in 1971.]
The List covers Joy Street and Hamilton Street in the Markets area of Belfast.
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A selection of doors in Joy Street and Hamilton Street in 1970. |
Fine three-storey stuccoed houses with string course, quoins, architraves, and curving architraves to the doorcases. The cobbler's shop at No.12 is a real amenity both to the neighbourhood and to the passing city gents who park here. The corner of the building is undercut, so that the shop entrance is at an angle to Joy Street and Little May Street - a rarish survivor of a once-common idiom.
[Shortly after the Joy Street list was published, a bomb demolished no.12 Joy Street. It was subsequently vested by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and sold to Hearth Housing Association, which restored nos.4-8, rebuilt the much shaken no.10, and built two flats on the site of no.12 to restore the terrace.]
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A particularly fine terrace of tall three-storey red brick
houses with stone quoins, pilastered doorcases, and still some
Georgian glazing-bars, Very well cared-for by the occupiers; two
with bathrooms inserted by tenants. This and the preceding terrace
are described in 'Changing Face of Belfast' as "good examples
of late Georgian quality housing catering for the increasing number
of well-to-do merchants and industrialists of the period... Houses
of these types are often seen in Dublin but are all too rare in
Belfast."
Ref: Changing Face of Belfast pl.48
[This terrace was restored by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive in two stages about 1985]
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Another fine group, similar to Nos.14-26, with medallions in the architraves above the fanlighted doorcases. No. 32, a fine house, lies shamefully empty, with broken windows.
[Nos.30 and 32 were demolished by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive as part of the Markets redevelopment in 1988; however Hearth Revolving Fund acquired and restored the adjacent terrace 36-46 Hamilton Street (see below) in 1988-90].
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Excellent three-storey redbrick terrace houses, with glazing-bars almost intact. Nos. 38 and 40 have delightful curly wrought-iron fanlights; all have arched doorcases with miniscule pilasters; quoins.
For more extracts from the Joy Street list, see St Malachy's Church. The area is also covered in the Society's book on Central Belfast.
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