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Alto Food — Middle Abbey Street

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Alto Food — Middle Abbey Street
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Terraced single-bay four-storey commercial building, reconstructed c.1920, 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. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with granite ashlar blocking course and deep moulded cornice above third floor flanked by scrolled console brackets. Full-span inset oriel window to all three floors with shallow canted central section. Original timber casement windows and overlights with continuous sill course and plain panels below. Replacement aluminium shopfront with original timber surround comprising slender panelled pilasters with foliate mouldings surmounted by panelled console brackets framing fascia and cornice above.

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