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Limerick General Post Office — Lower Cecil Street

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Limerick General Post Office — Lower Cecil Street
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Attached single-bay two-storey tiled post office building, built c. 1950. Flat roof hidden behind parapet wall. Entire first floor comprises floor to ceiling curtain walling in eleven sections with integrated panels above. The whole bay is surrounded by a tiled frame which extends to ground level. A shallow projecting canopy at first floor level has a flat lead roof with tiled front fascia and mosaic tiled soffit. Below canopy is a narrow section of five timber swivel windows with a black faience tiled wall below containing the letter openings, an historic clock and a harp motif. To the east is a recessed entrance porch with white mosaic floor and modern glazed doors, a corresponding recessed section to the west now contains some modern post boxes. Adjacent to this recess is a quadrapartite timber glazed section. Building is attached and connected to the older post office buildings fronting onto Post Office Lane and Henry Street.

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