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The Gresham Metropole — MacCurtain Street

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The Gresham Metropole — MacCurtain Street
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Corner-sited eighteen-bay four-storey hotel over basement and with dormer attic, built c. 1900, having gabled bays with canted bay windows, corner turret, and shopfronts to ground floor. Pitched, conical, and mansard roofs with fish scale patterned slates, gablets, gabled dormers, finials, cast-iron rainwater goods and red brick chimneystacks. Red brick Flemish bond walls to upper floors with carved sandstone eaves course, sandstone imposts, limestone string courses, and limestone continuous sills. Square-headed openings to first floor, segmental-arched openings to second and third floor, square-headed openings to dormers, and round-headed openings to gablets. Various timber sash and uPVC windows to upper floors. Bay windows to gabled bays with carved sandstone panels between floors. Shopfronts to west end of ground floor with tiled columns and pilasters supporting entablature and consoles. Colonnade to east end of ground floor with tiled columns and having recessed wall, rebuilt c. 1970. Round-headed door opening, with pair of glazed timber doors and fanlight, set in polished stone surround, and having carved limestone archivolt with mosaic panel above.

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