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Bus Éireann — Phibsborough Road

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Bus Éireann — Phibsborough Road
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Attached six-bay two-storey former railway works, built c.1850, having central two-bay breakfront to front (east) elevation, integral carriage arch, and full-height seven-bay return to rear (west) elevation, with double-pile sheds to rear of this. Now in use as offices and bus depot. Pitched slate roof with yellow brick chimneystacks having clay pots, cast-iron rainwater goods, granite coping, raised parapet wall to front with carved calp cornice and fascia over snecked cut calp to wall. Carved cornice over ground floor to breakfront. Snecked rubble calp to side elevations. Square-headed window openings, cut calp voussoirs, continuous calp platband forming sill course to first floor, replacement uPVC windows. Calp sills and twelve-over-twelve pane timber sash windows to ground floor, steel grilles to some. One window opening altered to form twelve-over-eight pane timber sash window over square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Elliptical-arched carriage openings to breakfront to front, one forming integral carriage arch with timber battened double-leaf doors, calp voussoirs, carved calp string courses at impost level, window to north opening, with four nine-over-nine pane timber sash windows, calp sill, timber tympanum.

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