McGowan's — Phibsborough Road

Corner-sited attached six-bay two-storey public house, built c.1820, with extensions and alterations c.1925, incorporating L-plan terraced house (part of Royal Canal Terrace) to south, with single-storey open-sided porch extension to front (east) elevation. Two-bay two-storey red brick block, built c.1925, having two two-bay two-storey houses to north, built c.1820, the whole with shopfronts to front (east) and south elevations. Flat roof to main block to south, M-profile pitched slate roof to four bays to north, with shared rendered chimneystacks having clay pots, raised parapet wall with granite coping to front and south elevations. Pedimented red brick parapet with corbelled frieze and render coping to red brick block. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick, laid in English garden wall bond, to first floor of front and south elevations, red brick block-and-start quoins. Moulded render cornice over rendered walls to four bays to north of front elevation. Square-headed window openings with rusticated granite lintels and cut granite sills to red brick block, timber framed windows. Square-headed window openings to north bays, moulded render surrounds and one-over-one pane timber sash windows, continuous moulded render sill course formed by shopfront cornice. Shopfront comprising panelled piers flanking square-headed openings with display windows and timber sash windows, with rendered sills and rendered risers. Gabled consoles flanking fascia and dentillated cornice forming nameplate to front elevation, over entablature with plain frieze and moulded cornice. Open area to porch to south, cast-iron railings to openings. Yellow brick, laid in Flemish bond, to house to south-west of pub, square-headed window openings with yellow brick voussoirs, painted masonry sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-arched door opening to front (east) elevation, yellow brick voussoirs, moulded masonry surround, panelled pilasters supporting lintel cornice over timber panelled door, spoked fanlight over, opening onto render step, cast-iron railings to south and wrought-iron gate with granite step to front.