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CRU — Middle Abbey Street

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CRU — Middle Abbey Street
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Terraced single-bay four-storey commercial building over concealed basement, reconstructed 1917, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Built as one of pair. Flat roof with shared rendered chimneystacks, hidden behind raised parapet wall with granite coping and cast-iron downpipe breaking through to east end. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with granite ashlar blocking course and deep moulded cornice above third floor flanked by scrolled console brackets and foliate panels. Full-span inset oriel window to all three floors with shallow canted central section, continuous cornice and frieze with swags and wreaths above first and second floor windows. Original timber casement windows with overlights. Replacement glazed shopfront flanked by polished granite pilasters surmounted by scrolled console brackets with pediments framing full-span cornice.

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