Bank of Ireland — Knox Street

Attached five-bay two-storey bank, designed 1921; built 1922-3; opened 1923, on a symmetrical plan with single-bay full-height advanced end bays. Refenestrated, ----. Pitched slate roof behind parapet with clay ridge tiles, and concealed rainwater goods retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered channelled walls (ground floor) on rendered chamfered plinth with rendered stringcourse; rendered, ruled and lined surface finish (first floor) with rusticated rendered piers to corners supporting "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice on blind frieze on entablature below parapet having "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed coping. Round-headed central window openings (ground floor) with cut-limestone sills, and channelled voussoirs framing replacement uPVC fittings replacing fixed-pane timber fittings. Round-headed door openings (end bays) with channelled voussoirs framing infill (north) or timber panelled double doors having overlight (south). Square-headed window openings (first floor) with "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed sill course on panelled risers, and moulded rendered surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing one-over-one timber sash windows. Street fronted with stone flagged footpath to front.