hotel — Market Square

Corner-sited four-bay two-storey former hotel, built c. 1792 and altered or rebuilt c. 1870. Now in use as a public house with modern stairwell extension to the north. Hipped artificial slate roof (fibre cement) having two moulded yellow brick chimneystacks with terracotta pots over, and moulded render eaves course with dentils. Some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls over projecting moulded smooth rendered plinth, and with render block-and-start quoins to the corners having fielded panels to faces. Square-headed window openings at first floor level having continuous moulded sill course, architraved surrounds with fielded keystones and moulded plinths, and with replacement windows; square-headed window openings at ground floor level to south elevation having architraved surrounds, plinth blocks, entablatures over with pulvinated frieze and dentilated cornice, moulded sills, and with replacement windows; enlarged window openings to the west elevation at ground floor level having plain surrounds and replacement fittings. Square-headed door opening to the south elevation (offset to the east side of centre) having timber double-doors, plain overlight, and doorcase comprising fluted pilasters over moulded plinths with fielded panels, capitals over with foliate decoration to friezes, and with entablatures over with dentilated cornice having egg-and-dart motif. Square-headed doorway to the centre of the west elevation having plain surround, timber double-doors and overlight. South elevation fronts on to the former market square to the centre of Buncrana, west elevation fronts onto Upper Main Street.