
What is recorded here
Outbuilding in Townparks went from chemical works to restaurant. ‘What’s in the sauce?’ is a perfectly ordinary question, but this is the one address where you’d be tempted to ask it twice.
Attached eight-bay four-storey former warehouse, built c.1800, now restaurant and offices. Dormer attic and addition to rear are recent. Pitched slate roof having rendered chimneystacks and coping to gables with concealed rainwater goods and recent uPVC dormer windows. Coursed rubble limestone walls having rendered eaves course, steel-framed balconies to south elevation with replacement uPVC French windows. Camber-headed window openings having block-and-start limestone surrounds and voussoirs, replacement stone to top two floors, render sills, and replacement uPVC windows. Camber-headed door openings and segmental-arch former carriage entrance, having limestone block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, with replacement uPVC doors.
This large former warehouse and chemical works stands close to Blake's Castle and the old city docks. Its size and repeating camber-headed windows give it a distinctive presence and appearance. The dressed stone voussoirs provide a somewhat decorative element.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30319014
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