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Richford Motors — North Wall Quay

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Richford Motors — North Wall Quay
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Detached multiple-bay three-storey brick commercial building, built 1862, with central pediment. Showroom to ground floor. Three-storey structure built behind original façade, c.2000. Moulded limestone raking cornice to red brick pediment with two windows below. Pedimented second floor rises from red brick parapet with flush red sandstone blocking course, moulded limestone coping and limestone cornice below. Red brick walls laid in English garden wall bond with yellow brick details to ground floor and yellow brick plinth course. Square-headed window openings to first floor with red sandstone lintels, replacement uPVC windows and resting on continuous limestone cornice framing ground floor. Yellow brick Doric pilasters framing windows to ground floor with sandstone capitals supporting yellow brick frieze and moulded dentillated yellow brick course below limestone cornice. Enlarged display windows to either end with further diminutive window opening having original wrought-iron window grilles. Gauged polychromatic brick round-headed door opening with recessed entrance having replacement uPVC glazed doors and original fanlight with iron grille and dentillated timber lintel. Gauged polychrome brick round-arched window openings to either side with inset bowtell moulded yellow brick surrounds, replacement uPVC windows and original iron grilles on stone sills.

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