Cathedral Quarter - Belfast City Council

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Restoration is underway at
this corner site on
Donegall Street
Geese were once driven
from North Street to feed
on fields outside the town
K6 ‘Jubilee Kiosk’
1-3 Donegall Street 1867-72, 1876 Listed
The four-storey stucco curved corner group acts as a
distinctive gateway to Donegall and Waring Street.
The more prominent building right on the corner is
by Thomas Jackson. Its windows are grouped in
pairs and triplets, with moulded arches. Number 3
by William Hastings is more unusual with its parapet
of iron arches and Mannerist decoration. The pair
languished for a number of years, however the
façades are being animated as a hotel is being
developed behind.
North Street
North Street was shown on the 1680 and 1685
maps, when the city wall bisected the street at the
Royal Avenue junction. It then consisted of singlestorey
houses and was known as Goose Lane, since
it was the lane by which geese were driven to feed
on fields outside the town.
In the mid 19th century it was full of small
businesses, leather and iron merchants, shoemakers,
grocers, haberdashers, and umbrella, whip, bellows
and trunk makers.
Although currently down at heel, North Street
retains many good 19th and 20th century buildings
capable of re-use and gap sites awaiting exciting
new development.
K6 ‘Jubilee Kiosk’ 1936 Listed
Architect Giles Gilbert Scott was commissioned to
design a telephone box in 1935 to celebrate King
George V’s jubilee. The earlier K2 version was widely
disliked when first unveiled across Britain. These
distinctive red kiosks began to vanish in the 1980s
and the survivors are now mostly loved and listed.
Construction underway at Waring Street