North Street Arcade

The site on which the North Street Arcade was built, situated between North Street and Donegall Street, was originally occupied by a number of small premises, of which the most significant was the Brookfield Linen Company warehouse, built 1869–1881. According to architectural writer Marcus Patton (1993), in the mid-19th century, North Street mainly consisted of "small businesses, shoemakers and publicans, grocers and haberdashers, leather and iron merchants."{{#tag:ref| cited in Construction was carried out by F. B. McKee & Co. between 1936 and 1938,{{#tag:ref| cited in The building was first valued by the government on the Second General Revaluation of Northern Ireland (1956–1972), by the…

[[File:The North Street Arcade, Belfast (detail) - geograph.org.uk - 1217709.jpg|thumb|left| Stone sculpture over Donegall Street entrance, as retained from the Brookfield Linen Company warehouse. The Donegall Street entrance also includes a feature of the original warehouse: a stone relief sculpture, depicting eight linen workers, which is displayed above the entrance.