J3474 : Former Riddel's warehouse, Belfast - January 2015(1)
taken 9 years ago, near to Belfast, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland
A disused former warehouse at 87-91 Ann Street, Belfast.
“An attached High Victorian four-storey seven-bay warehouse of c1865 in a terrace on Ann Street, designed by Thomas Jackson & Sons in polychrome brick fronting five stories of galleries supported on cast iron columns and beams, lit originally by a cast iron and glass roof” - part description on the NI Listed Buildings website.
Adjoining the police station, the property was acquired as a security measure and bricked-up. Externally it became an eyesore although recent photographs show the inside in a remarkable state of preservation and possibly (if not probably) unique in Belfast.
“One of the most remarkable survivals from industrial 19th century Belfast is the four-storey ironmongery warehouse built for John Riddel & Co in 1867 to the designs of Thomas Jackson. Behind its lively, polychromatic façade is a unique atrium with five stories of galleries supported by cast iron columns and heavy timber beams arranged round three sides of a glass-roofed courtyard” - Hearth Historic Buildings Trust website.
There is the following application (2 September 2019) for planning permission “LA04/2019/2134/LBC Masonry cleaning to principal (north) façade. Riddels warehouse 88-91 Ann Street Belfast”.
The photographs submitted by me appear as a matter of visual neutral record only. I have no connection with the building or any architectural pressure group.
- Grid Square
- J3474, 4349 images (more nearby )
- Photographer
- Albert Bridge (find more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Sunday, 25 January, 2015 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Sunday, 25 January, 2015
- Geographical Context
- Place (from Tags)
- Subject Location
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Irish: J 343 743 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:35.9663N 5:55.3522W - Camera Location
- Irish: J 343 743
- View Direction
- Southwest (about 225 degrees)