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Corner-sited retail building, built 1917-20, comprising five-storey three-bay elevation to O'Connell Street Lower, six-storey single-bay canted frontispiece to corner of O'Connell Street Lower and Abbey Street Middle, and five-storey five-bay elevation to Abbey Street Middle. Now in use as fast food restaurant. Flat roof hidden behind red brick parapet wall with granite coping. Turret with chamfered corners to canted corner bay having Mansard copper domed roof surmounted by smaller octagonal turret with lightening rod. Machine-made red brick walls laid in Flemish bond to fifth, fourth and third floors, with moulded red brick string course to fifth floor turret, moulded granite string course forming impost course to fourth floor, dentillated entablature forming lintel course to third floor with moulded granite sill course below. Concrete walls to second and first floor. Polished black granite cladding to ground floor forming shopfront with recent signs to nameplate and fluted console brackets to corners and having low plinth course and string course moulding in black granite. Square-plan pilasters dividing bays, with brick pilasters to fourth floor, brick and ashlar granite pilasters to third floor. Double-height pilasters to first and second and floors having decorative knotted-material-drape detail to cornice. Single-bay six-storey corner elevation having twin Lombardo Romanesque arches with central granite column and granite stepped impost course forming continuous hood-moulding to fifth floor. Granite risers and sill, multiple fixed-pane windows. Square-headed openings with shouldered brick surrounds and granite sills having single-pane timber sliding sash windows to fourth floor. Camber-headed window openings to third floor canted bay, set under broken dentillated pediment with moulded granite surround. Square-headed window openings to third floor main elevations having stepped brick surrounds and with leaded multi-pane timber-framed casement Wyatt windows. Square-headed double-height window openings to first and second floors, having triple canted bay windows with timber-framed leaded multi-pane awning windows. Masonry riser dividing first and second floor windows, with foliate swag to centre canted bay flanked by shouldered masonry panels. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows to ground floor shopfront. Superimposed Doric pilasters flanking windows at ground floor level. Main entrance to canted bay and secondary entrance to O’Connell Street Lower, having square-headed openings with replacement uPVC door fittings throughout. Integral square-headed carriage entrance to Bachelor’s Walk and North Lotts from Abbey Street Middle under westernmost bay. Stepped and bull-nosed brick supporting moulded granite bracket to side of integrated passageway, carved fluted moulded granite console on frieze over entrance forming supports to pilasters over. Yellow brick elevation to rear laid in English garden wall bond, having one-storey structure infilling rear of site in yellow brick. Mixture of segmental and square-headed timber and replacement uPVC windows. Modern granite paving to O’Connell Street Lower laid c.2003, concrete slabs with granite kerbing to Abbey Street Middle.
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