The Railway Tavern — Altamount Street

Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor. In alternative use, 1897. For sale, 2008. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls with bull nose-detailed rendered panelled quoins to ends. Timber shopfront to ground floor on a symmetrical plan centred on timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement with concrete (ground floor) or cut-limestone (first floor) sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Street fronted with flagged footpath to front having cut-limestone kerbing.