1935 – Sinclairs Department Store, Royal Avenue, Belfast
Architect: James Scott
A fine building, developed as a department store in the 1930s and opposite the Bank of Ireland,
A fine building, developed as a department store in the 1930s and opposite the Bank of Ireland,
A fine corner building, but stylistically old-fashioned by the time of its construction. The corner entrance has a a double-height polished limestone surround.
Bult as a more than 76,000 sq.ft replacement for the previous Victorian store which had been destroyed in a massive fire in 1958.
Designed in the 1950s by the same firm of architects (NMA), half of the store was built in the 1960s and the other half in the 1970s.