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shop/retail outlet — O'Connell Street Lower

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Terraced three-bay four-storey shop over concealed basement, built 1920, now in multiple use as gift shop and offices, with recent shopfront to ground floor. Flat roof hidden behind granite parapet having chimneystacks on party walls shared with no. 32 to south and no. 34 to north. Moulded string course to parapet. Unified granite ashlar façade to nos. 29-33 O'Connell Street Lower, sharing same parapet height and having small variations in west elevation. Similarities in design with no.34 to north executed in Portland stone. Minimal granite classicism with engaged pilasters to attic storey, dentillated entablature and giant pilasters to first and second floors. Pock marks between first and second floors where signage was previously fixed. Novelty square profile clock projecting from first floor elevation surmounted by two moulded Gaelic figures striking bell and swans at their feet. Plain moulded platband over engaged pilasters to ground floor. Square-headed window openings with moulded granite surrounds to third, second and first floor, having slightly projecting central bay to first and second floors with smaller flanking bays. Timber sliding sash windows, three-over-six pane to central bay of third floor and six-over-six pane to second floor, with replacement uPVC top-hung windows imitating six-over-six pane timber sash windows to first floor. Rear access from Earl Place via modern brick Clery's building.

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