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What is recorded here

Detached seven-bay three-storey former custom house, built 1724, with breakfront end bays. Now in use as art gallery. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks. Red brick walls with limestone string course between ground and first floors, moulded eaves course, and ashlar limestone quoins. Ashlar limestone dressings to window openings, with pediments to first floor openings. Replacement timber pivot and casement windows. Ashlar limestone door architrave, flanked by Doric columns having entablature above. Replacement timber panelled door with toplight. Ashlar limestone plinths with wrought-iron railings and gates.

This former custom house which is of apparent architectural form and design makes a notable and positive addition to the streetscape. This building was Cork custom house for just over one hundred years, and was set along King's Dock, which is now built over and forms Emmet Place. The building was presented to the Royal Cork Institution in the early 1830s, and became a school of design in 1850. The materials utilised in the construction of this building articulate the form of the building and add colour and textural interest to the streetscape.

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