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gates/railings/walls — Botanic Road

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gates/railings/walls — Botanic Road
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Granite and steel boundary, erected 1923, to front (west) of former John Player & Co. tobacco factory. Symmetrical layout, comprising decorative steel railings with saltire crosses to top rail and equally spaced steel cage piers with hooped frieze and ball finials to corners, set on chamfered ashlar granite plinth wall; divided into sections by square ashlar granite piers with band-rusticated quoins and corniced caps. Paired vehicular steel gates to north and south ends with saltire panels, saltire top rail and central hoop, flanked to outer ends by matching pedestrian gates bearing maker's mark 'J & C McGloughlin Ltd. Dublin', supported on large square-plan piers, each having moulded plinth, band rustication, moulded stringcourse, plain frieze and corniced caps, supporting tapered steel lamp standards with geometric framework (lamps missing). Tarmac vehicular access with granite kerbing to concrete footpath, and with tarmac carparking within.

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