Bank of Ireland — Saint Laurence Street

Attached five-bay two-storey bank, designed 1873; built 1873-5, on a square plan with shopfront to ground floor. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Pitched (south) and hipped (north) slate roofs behind parapet with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables, and concealed rainwater goods with cast-iron rainwater goods (north) on rendered eaves. Granite ashlar wall to front (south) elevation on cut-granite stepped plinth with dentilated ogee-detailed cornice on consoles on stringcourse below copper-covered parapet; rendered surface finish (remainder). Cut-granite shopfront to ground floor with panelled pilasters on stepped plinths supporting dentilated ogee-detailed cornice on consoles below inscribed blocking course. Square-headed central window opening (first floor) cut-granite architrave with panelled pilasters on padstones supporting ogee-detailed segmental pediment on "Acanthus"-detailed fluted scroll consoles, and cut-granite lugged surround framing one-over-one timber sash window. Square-headed flanking window openings, cut-granite lugged surrounds with ogee-detailed hood mouldings on blind friezes framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.