The Site continued...

The route was once Belfast’s main thoroughfare from the banks of the Lagan to the Town Hall which lay at the junction of Bridge Street and Waring Street, and in the mid 1600’s a tenement block stood there as the first terraced building in Belfast, providing accommodation to the Potthouse workers.

Between the tenement and adjacent Potthouse open space provided a communal area for everyday domestic duties, essentially the backyard. Form >>