office — O'Connell Street Upper

Terraced three-bay five-storey former coal merchants premises, built c.1925, formerly in use as cinema and now in use as public house, with recent timber shopfront to ground floor. Copper-clad roof, pitched to front (west) elevation and flat to rear (east) having ashlar granite parapet wall with squared granite coping over moulded granite eaves course. Ashlar limestone wall to upper floors of front elevation having substantial moulded cornice forming sill course to fourth floor above Portland stone platband. Portland stone wall to ground floor with plinth course, surmounted by moulded granite platband with flag masts. Granite, cement and Portland stone balustrade balcony to second floor of central bay with end plinth blocks on fluted brackets. Front (west) elevation advancing slightly from building to south. Square-headed window openings with flush granite lintels, reveals and sills having original quadripartite iron-framed top-hung windows to upper floors and replacement timber-framed top-hung windows to first floor. Recessed square-headed door opening to south of front elevation with timber panelled double-leaf doors and bisected obscured glass overlight set to Portland stone reveals. Door opens onto original marble paving. Recent timber and glazed shopfront with panelled window aprons, Doric piers supporting foliated brackets flanking fascia and modillion cornice over. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber double-leaf doors to Art Deco-tiled draught lobby. Interior greatly altered with c.1970 timber bar, panelling, and glazed and timber screens. Original timber floorboards to rear and modillion cornice and anaglypta to front.