Allied Irish Bank — Main Street

Attached two-bay three-storey bank building with bank manager’s accommodation over, built c. 1897, having projecting box-bays to upper floors, half-dormer attic level, bank front at ground floor level, and with three-storey return and gabled stair return to the rear (south). Modern single-storey extension to the rear (built 1994). Possibly originally built as a branch of the Hibernian Bank, now in use by the Allied Irish Bank. Pitched natural slate roof (purple slate) with moulded eaves cornice, stepped rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (east and west) having moulded cornices to heads, and cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers, decorative tie plates with floral motifs and profiled gutters; flat roofs to half-dormer openings having moulded render cornices to heads with raised render decoration under. Painted smooth rendered walls with moulded render stringcourses to projecting box-bays between first and second floor level. Square-headed window openings at first floor level having tripartite timber casement windows and stone sills; paired square-headed window openings to half-dormers at second floor level having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and with moulded render sill course under incorporating profiled rainwater gutters. Bankfront at ground floor level comprising two central segmental/basket-headed fixed-pane three-over-two pane windows, moulded render reveals, and with incised decoration to apron panels, and central engaged Doric\classical pilaster; projecting pedimented segmental\basket-headed doorways to either end with squared-headed timber panelled doors with bolection mouldings, moulded reveals, multi-paned overlights (coloured leaded glass to overlight to the east end with central floral motif, three-over-three toplight over to overlight to the west end), and with pedimented surround comprising engaged Doric\classical pilasters with moulded plinths supporting moulded render pediments over; moulded entablature over having bank name to frieze and with moulded cornice over incorporating moulded rainwater goods; decorative scrolled to ends of frieze to doorways. Road-fronted to the west end of the centre of Main Street, Ballybofey. Laneway to the south-east, off Navenny Street, with gateway giving access to yard to rear (south) of site comprising a pair of pebbledashed brick gate piers (on square-plan) with cut stone copping and cut stone ball finials over.