Ulster Bank

1859 – Design for Ulster Bank Headquarters, Belfast

Architect: Fitzgibbon Louch

Design entry for new headquarters for the Ulster Banking Company. Published in The Building News, January 21 1859.

1860 – Former Ulster Bank Headquarters, Waring St., Belfast

Architect: James Hamilton

Constructed as the headquarters of the Ulster Bank, and now a luxury hotel. Hamilton won the commission after an architectural competition in 1857 that attracted over 50 competitors from across the UK and Ireland.

1862 – Ulster Bank, Waterloo Place, Derry

Architect: Thomas Jackson

Fine Italianate bank building by Belfast architect Thomas Jackson. Jackson was architect to the Ulster Bank,

1863 – Ulster Bank, Longford, Co. Longford

Architect: James Bell

Fine limestone facade with carved riverine keystones to the windows on the ground floor.
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1866 – Ulster Bank, Maghera, Co. Derry

Architect: Thomas Jackson

Imposingly solid bank branch for the Ulster Bank Company, and still in use by the same company today,

1870 – Ulster Bank Buildings, Waring St., Belfast

Architect: Thomas Jackson & Sons

Now part of the Merchant Hotel along with the former Ulster Bank headquarters next to it.

1889 – Design for Ulster Bank, College Green, Dublin

Architect: James J. Farrall

Unsuccessful competition entry to design new Ulster Bank for College Green. Placed second, and even more over-blown Victorian than the building constructed and eventually wrecked by the bank.

1891 – Ulster Bank, College Green, Dublin

Architect: Sir Thomas Drew

One of the most magnificent bank buildings in the city with a pompous over-blown doorway,

1897 – Ulster Bank, Camden Street, Dublin

Architect: William Mitchell

Austere but solid bank branch with subtle decorative plasterwork and symmetrical design.

1933 – Ulster Bank, Portadown, Co. Armagh

Architect: Blackwood & Jury

Classically inspired and symmetrical bank branch of 1933, replacing an earlier building. Still in use today.