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The Old Bank — Phibsborough Road

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The Old Bank — Phibsborough Road
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Corner-sited Italianate bank, built c.1900, with five-bay three-storey elevation to front (west) elevation and five-bay three-storey elevation to north elevation with wraparound arcaded shopfront. Now disused. Hipped U-plan slate roof, with crested terracotta ridge tiles, brick chimneystacks and profiled cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with bull-nosed and corbelled brick eaves course to front, north and east elevations. Cement-rendered walls to south elevation. Giant order brick pilasters to front and north elevations, that to northwest corner continued to ground floor as pier. Munster and Leinster Bank monograms in roundels to front elevation. Square-headed window openings with bull-nosed brick voussoirs and reveals, brick hoods and concrete sills having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor. Segmental-headed window openings with bull-nosed brick voussoirs and reveals, and concrete sills having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to second floor. Shopfront comprising limestone stall risers supporting segmental-headed windows framed by limestone columns with foliate capitals supporting limestone fascia. Segmental-headed door openings set within segmental-headed arcading framed by marble column and limestone pilaster having timber double-leaf door to northwest corner. Segmental-headed openings with limestone pilasters with recessed panels and timber double-leaf door to east end.

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