Joy Street, Belfast (3)

Image: © Albert Bridge Taken: 28 Nov 2011

Houses in Joy Street, between May Street and Little May Street (right). Restored by the Hearth Housing association – the following is a quotation: “Joy Street was mostly developed between 1825 and 1840 . . . . Nos.4 and 6 have now been restored as three-storey family houses, with alcoves in the cross-walls of the ground floor front rooms, panel doors and simple moulded cornices. No.8 was an entry to the rear of the property, and remains such. No.10 was to have been restored, but proved structurally very fragile and when piling for the replacement of no.12 was under way the decision was reluctantly taken to demolish the house and rebuild it in replica. Both it and the flats at no.12 and 31 Little May Street are therefore of modern construction, but the continuity of the houses with the important Georgian terrace at 14-16 Joy Street, restored some years earlier by the Housing Executive, has been retained.” See also Image

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