shop/retail outlet — Wicklow Street

Corner-sited four-storey attached commercial building, built c. 1905, presenting three bays to Wicklow Street, canted corner to junction of Wicklow Street and South William Street, and single bay to South William street. In commercial retail use. Flat roof, concealed behind balustraded granite parapet over yellow sandstone eaves course. Red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, with pilasters to all bays, double to corner bay and to bay of side elevation; and yellow sandstone dressings, including continuous sill and stringcourses and projecting cornice to top floor sill level. Square-headed window openings, paired to middle bay of main elevation and single elsewhere, diminishing to upper floors, with yellow sandstone heads and bowtelll-moulded surrounds with timber casement windows, those to top floor having foliate carving to window heads. Two-tier canted oriel windows to bays flanking corner, each surmounted by segmental-headed pediment with carved foliate tympanum over swagged frieze, timber casement windows with stained-glass top-lights, and fluted apron. Square-headed wraparound shopfront to ground floor, flanked by marble-clad pilasters with Doric capitals rising to fluted console brackets with round-headed pediments flanking moulded cornice. Arcaded full-height display windows flanked by painted brick panels. Bottom-hinged timber casements over timber panelled stall-riser to lower part of display window to side elevation. Doorway to canted-bay flanked by fluted colonnettes, with timber glazed panelled door and top-light. Doorway to middle of main elevation flanked by similar pilasters and having granite step and glazed door.