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The Pillar House — Society Street

bank/financial institution
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The Pillar House — Society Street
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Terraced three-storey former bank, built c.1830, having four-bay ground floor and three-bay upper floors. Now in use as public house and guest house. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks, and carved eaves course. Exposed rubble limestone walls to upper floors. Arcaded ashlar limestone bankfront to ground floor having engaged Tuscan columns with pronounced entasis flanking openings and supporting fascia engraved with lettering 'National Bank of Ireland', with moulded cornice. Square-headed window openings to top floor and cambered to middle floor, with cut-stone sills and replacement aluminium windows. Segmental-headed openings to ground floor having cut-stone voussoirs, panelled stall risers, cut-stone sills and replacement timber windows. Doorways have timber panelled doors with stained-glass sidelights and spoked fanlights, that serving upper floors having limestone stall risers. Integral archway to neighbouring building to east has cut limestone open-bed pediment and ashlar walls and piers.

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