Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD, GAS WORKS
Name: | BARLOW, - |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD, GAS WORKS |
Date: | 1823 |
Nature: | Arched gateway supported by pairs of columns with Doric entablature ; Doric pediments ot Clerk's and Engineer's offices; Doric portico to retort house. |
Refs: | C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 15, citing Belfast News Letter, 2 Sep 1823. |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD, GAS WORKS |
Date: | 1869 |
Nature: | Adds. |
Refs: | IB 11, 1 Jan 1869, 9 |
Name: | STELFOX, JAMES |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD, GAS WORKS |
Date: | 1869 |
Nature: | Telescopic gasometer has been erected by Mssrs. Pigott & Sons, Birmingham, under superintendence of JS. |
Refs: | IB 11, 1 Jan 1869, 9 |
Name: | STELFOX, JAMES |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD, GAS WORKS |
Date: | 1880ca |
Nature: | Middle Section Meter House, 'an elegant pink pleasure-dome, with extensive classical panelling, a handsome plaster frieze, and a coved wooden ceiling supporting a great dome of iron and painted glass' (Brett). Damaged in blitz. Derelict in 1985. |
Refs: | C.E.B. Brett, The Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 60. |
Name: | STELFOX, JAMES |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD, GAS WORKS |
Date: | 1887-88 |
Nature: | Designed office block; 'entrance hall and staircase form an astonishing composition…in strict, if clumsy, classical idiom…all executed in gleaming tiles'(Brett). |
Refs: | IB 30, 15 Jan 1888, 16; C.E.B. Brett, The Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 60,Pl.60. |
Name: | WATT, ROBERT GRAEME |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD, GAS WORKS |
Date: | 1887-88 |
Nature: | New; 'designed by a leading local architect [RW] and not by the manager of the works [James Stelfox] as is popularly supposed' (Larmour) |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 52-3 (no. 119, illus.) |
Name: | SHARPE, ROBERT |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD, GAS WORKS |
Date: | 1907-1908 |
Nature: | Addition(s). Contractor: J. & W. Stewart. |
Refs: | IB 49, 29 Jun 1907, 457; 50, 11 Jan 1908, 21 |