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waterworks — Adelaide Road

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waterworks — Adelaide Road
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Detached three-bay single-storey former water pressure station, public lavatories and kiosk, built 1929, having shallow breakfronts to front (south) and rear (north) elevations. In use as kiosk. Flat lead roof with concrete parapet, having stepped pediments to front and rear and pediments to side (east and west) elevations. Carved limestone plaques with Dublin coat-of-arms to parapets to front and rear. Carved limestone frieze having coin mouldings. Overhanging moulded masonry cornice and frieze, with letters reading 'Kisok' to east elevation, over vertical brick platband. Red brick, laid in English bond to walls, granite plinth course. Square-headed window openings, those to breakfront arranged in group of three, some having rendered reveals, some with limestone sills, some having moulded terracotta sills over risers with diamond-pattern brickwork. Timber-framed windows. Oculus to east elevation having brick surround. Steel sprocketed canopy over. Square-headed door openings, those to rear with rendered reveals and chevron brick surrounds. Square-headed door opening to west elevation having moulded masonry surround with fluted motif. Pediment having guttae, timber battened door. Located on traffic island at junction of Fitzwilliam Place, Adelaide Road, and Leeson Street Lower.

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