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The Winding Stair — Ormond Quay Lower

shop/retail outlet
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The Winding Stair — Ormond Quay Lower
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Terraced three-bay four-storey commercial building, built c.1875, remodelled c.1920, with shopfront to ground floor. Flat roof hidden behind parapet wall with moulded coping and squat piers to either end. Brick chimneystacks with clay pots to east party wall. Painted brick walls laid in Flemish bond with channelled rusticated brick pilasters framing front façade, and moulded cornice to base of parapet. Yellow brick walls laid in English garden wall bond to rear and east side elevations with granite coping to parapet. Arcaded fenestration to upper floors with gauged brick round-headed bays to top floor and keystones rising from giant brick pilasters. Original round-headed tripartite timber casement windows to third floor with glazed central hub and spoked outer glazing, resting on continuous masonry sill and brick aprons below. Square-headed window openings to first and second floors with original tripartite timber casement windows and overlights, also on continuous masonry sill and brick aprons to second floor. Decorative symmetrical shopfront to ground floor with central door opening having encaustic tiled floor to porch with timber glazed porch screen. Replacement timber display window to east bay with recessed tiled entrance to west bay. Each bay flanked by brick pilasters having plinth and capital mouldings supporting replacement timber fascia and original cornice framed by pair of elaborate brackets with ball-head finials. Gauged brick flat-arch window openings with masonry sills to rear elevation having timber casement windows and steel fire escape.

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