Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LINEN HALL STREET, NO. 005 (LANCASHIRE HOUSE)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: GIBSON, ROBERT HANNA
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LINEN HALL STREET, NO. 005 (LANCASHIRE HOUSE)
Date: 1938-39
Nature: Linen warehouse demolished to make way for 6-storey office block for Yorkshire Insurance Co. designed by RHG.
Refs: IB 80, 19 Mar 1938, 223; 81, 18 Feb,11 Nov 1939, 153,921

Name: GIBSON, ROBERT HANNA
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LINEN HALL STREET, NO. 005 (LANCASHIRE HOUSE)
Date: 1956-59
Nature: 8-storey office block extension to Yorkshire House, Donegall Sq. With E.D. Taylor, for Yorkshire Assurance Co. Contractor: F.B. McKee Ltd, Blefast.
Refs: IB 99, 20 Apr 1957, 293,295; 101, 19 Sep,3 Oct 1959, 687,727(illus.); Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 28 (sub no. 53); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 213-4