Weir and Sons — Wicklow Street

Attached two-bay four-storey commercial building, built c. 1900, forming part of retail complex with adjoining buildings, No. 3 Wicklow Street and No. 96 Grafton Street. Pitched roof, with rendered chimneystack to west party wall, concealed behind red brick parapet with cogged brick eaves course and granite coping. Concealed guttering with replacement cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to west. Machine-made red brick walling laid in Flemish bond, with header courses to sill level and toothed stringcourses to imposts. Square-headed window openings with granite sills, brick voussoirs and continuous cavetto hood-moulding over first floor openings. Windows are one-over-one pane timber sliding sashes with ogee horns. Projecting square-headed tripartite timber display window spanning first floor and extending west into No. 3 Wicklow Street, with panelled mullions, flanking twin-pane sidelights and having lead-lined cornice over simplified entablature. Wraparound shopfront to ground floor, extending across neighbouring buildings, having continuous moulded and painted timber fascia with raised lettering spanning Nos. 2-3, surmounted by modillioned lead-lined cornice. Timber display windows with overlights and curved corners, subdivided by timber colonnettes (some faced with awning support pieces) over polished granite stall-risers. Early to mid-twentieth-century awning arms retained, extending over fascia. Pair of recessed entrance porches flanking central display window, with tiled paving and mosaic lettering 'Weir & Sons'. Square-headed door openings with timber and bevelled glass doors, having brass handles and decorative frosted glass with foliate detailing and lettering 'Weir & Sons Manufacturing Silversmiths Jewellery/Showroom Grafton St'. Doors set within moulded timber frames with carved timber swan's-neck pediment rising to multiple-pane timber overlight, with keyed oculus to centre set in shouldered timber architrave. Well-preserved interior, including plasterwork ceilings, frosted mirrors and freestanding oval display cabinets of c. 1935.