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Davy Byrne's — Duke Street

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Davy Byrne's — Duke Street
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Attached two-bay three-storey former house over concealed basement, built c. 1725, fully abutted to rear. Now in use as public house and having early twentieth-century pubfront to ground floor. Flat roof concealed by parapet having crown cornice and plain frieze with pattress plates. Replacement aluminium downpipes and concealed gutters. Painted Flemish bond brick walling to upper floors with acrylic numbers between upper floors. Square-headed window openings with architraves and lacking sills, with obscurely glazed fixed windows to top floor, and replacement one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor. Shopfront comprises timber-framed plate glass display window with four top-lights over panelled stall-riser, recessed square-headed door opening, panelled pedestals supporting three slender fluted columns flanking openings and having geometric embellishments to base and decorative Ionic-style capitals, and fascia and dentil cornice with raised panel at either end. Marble-lined door reveal studded with bronze roundels, oak panelled outer doors to porch, wire-glazed overlight, and oak-framed glazed inner porch doors. Inter-war interior of c. 1940, having coffered ceiling to front, lined with wood veneer lining painted with ivy leaves, deep moulded dado, motor age-style plasterwork detailing to walls, frieze decorated with simple plaster relief moulding, geometric in style and comprising alternate inverted and upright 'B' motif. Two original inter-war murals on canvas to west wall, with glass covering and simple frames. Oak door to WC with panelled embellishment.

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