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George Irwin and Sons — Main Street

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George Irwin and Sons — Main Street
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Attached four-bay three-storey house, built or heavily altered c.1880, with shopfront to ground floor, c. 1950. Integral square-headed carriage arch to the east end of the main elevation (south). One of a pair with the building adjacent to the west (see 40843025). Pitched artificial slate roof with overhanging bracketed eaves with cornice, clayware ridge tiles, and having smooth rendered chimneystacks to either end (east and west) with rendered coping over. Cast-iron downpipe. Smooth rendered walls with rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners/margins at first and second floor levels. Stringcourse at second floor level. Diminishing segmental-headed window openings to the upper floors having one-over-one pane timber sash windows. Continuous render/stucco stringcourses to upper floors, moulded and bracketed at first floor level. Render stringcourse to the first floor level forming hoodmoulding with keystone detail over window openings. Square-headed display windows at ground floor level having fixed-pane windows. Central square-headed doorway shopfront having timber double-doors and plain overlight. Raised lettering over shopfront. Square-headed doorway, offset to the east side of centre and giving access to upper floors, having replacement timber door flanked by pilasters with console brackets over, and having leaded overlight with stained/coloured glass. Timber double doors to carriage arch. Road-fronted to the east of Donegal Town centre, to the centre of Main Street.

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