Iveagh Trust Buildings — Bride Street

Group of four T-plan east-facing residential tenement blocks, built 1904, with two attached five-bay four-storey blocks having mansard attics to south and two attached seven-bay four-storey blocks having mansard attics to north, both with stepped gablets, central advanced entrance bays having domed cupolas, and shopfronts to front (east) elevation. Full-height returns to rear, each return having three-bay breakfront to either side of west end, forming five-bay rear (west) elevation. Pitched slate mansard roof to front (east) elevation and pitched slate roofs to rear returns with corbelled brick eaves course, copper clad cupolas, red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walls laid in English bond with dressed granite plinth course and terracotta string courses. Stepped brick panels to chimneybreasts and terracotta date plaques to north and south elevations. Segmental-headed window openings to ground and first floor, square-headed openings to second and third floor with brick voussoirs and reveals, terracotta keystones and sills and timber sash windows, six-over-six pane and four-over-four pane, some bipartite with timber mullions, some paired. Square-headed openings to mansard attic with six-over-six pane timber sash windows, some with segmental pediments, some with cornices. Some casement windows and replacement timber windows to rear elevations. Round-headed door openings to entrance bays with dressed granite surround and keystone, carved tympana and timber panelled double-leaf doors. Round-headed door openings with brick surrounds, hood mouldings and keystones, carved tympana and timber panelled double-leaf door to west elevation. Shopfronts comprising brick stallriser, display windows, glazed doors, dressed granite pilasters with carved console brackets. Round-headed pedestrian arch with dressed granite surround and keystone and wrought-iron double-leaf gates between Block F and Block G. Cast-iron railings on granite plinth to north and south ends.