The Water Office is a former warehouse at 1 Donegall Square, Belfast, Northern Ireland, that is

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by the Northern Ireland Department for Communities at grade B1, citing both "Historic Interest" and "Architectural Interest".

History

It was built between 1860 and 1879 in an Italian Gothic style to the designs of William H. Lynn for Richardson Sons and Owden, linen merchants. It became the offices of the

Belfast City and District Water Commissioners The Belfast Water Commissioners was a public body in Ireland and later Northern Ireland,From the body's formation until 1922, the island of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Following Ireland's independence as t ...

in the late 1930s. It was badly damaged by German bombing during World War II and was refurbished by

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in the 1980s which continues to occupy the building.HB26/50/015.
Department for Communities. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
Victorian Web, 13 September 2006. Retrieved 29 January 2018.

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Belfast City and District Water Commissioners Listed buildings in Northern Ireland Listed warehouses in the United Kingdom Buildings and structures completed in 1879 William Henry Lynn buildings Commercial buildings in Northern Ireland 19th-century architecture in Northern Ireland Warehouses in Europe {{NorthernIreland-struct-stub