Bakery in Limerick Municipal Borough, County Limerick

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Terraced single-bay three-storey former bakery, built c. 1890, with limestone shopfront and three-sided canted-bay oriel window at first floor level. Possibly originally one larger structure. Roof concealed behind parapet wall. One rendered chimneystack to party wall. Façade walls faced with red brick laid in English garden wall bond, with rusticated red brick quoins to side rising to parapet level. Parapet entablature comprising red brick frieze, limestone ashlar frieze architrave and modillion cornice, beneath concrete blocking course. Rubble limestone rear elevation. Tripartite square-headed window opening at second floor level with continuous limestone sill course and lintel, red brick piers and timber casement windows with leaded upper panes. Timber-framed three-sided canted bay window with rendered ogee soffit, leaded glass panes and dentil enriched eaves to three-sided hipped tile roof. Limestone shopfront comprising squat Corinthian pilasters joined by a painted timber fascia board with moulded detailing over capitals. Elaborate glazed timber overlight with leaded glass panes beneath which an additional recessed inner shopfront with fluted limestone pilasters flank door opening to upper floors and central display window with central entrance to bank hall. ATM machine set into squat pointed arch recess.

This interesting single-bay bank building employs a vernacular monumentality in the façade composition, enlivened by the bay window and limestone shopfront. While the façade appears to date to the early twentieth century, the rubble limestone rear elevation suggests an earlier period of construction.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21512009

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