Weir and Sons — Wicklow Street

Attached two-bay four-storey commercial building, built c. 1900, forming part of retail complex with adjoining buildings, No. 2 Wicklow Street and No. 96-99 Grafton Street. Hipped roof with rendered chimneystack to east party wall, concealed behind red brick parapet with cogged brick eaves course and granite coping. Concealed guttering with replacement hopper and downpipe breaking through to east end. Machine-made red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, with stepped eaves course. Square-headed window openings, diminishing to upper floors, with granite sills, brick voussoirs and timber sliding sash windows with convex horns, two-over-two pane to second and third floors and three-over-three to top floor. Projecting square-headed tripartite timber display window spanning first floor and extending east into No. 2, with panelled mullions, flanking twin-pane sidelights and having lead-lined cornice over simplified entablature. Wrap-around timber shopfront to ground floor, extending across neighbouring buildings to east, having continuous moulded and painted timber fascia with raised lettering spanning Nos. 2-3, surmounted by modillioned lead-lined cornice. Display window has overlights and curved corner to east end, having timber colonnettes, one faced with awning support pieces, over polished granite stall-riser, terminated to west end by foliate panelled pilaster with foliate and scrolled capital, surmounted by ornate console brackets supporting fascia and cornice. Early to mid-twentieth-century awning arms retained, extending over fascia. Well-preserved interior, including plasterwork ceilings, frosted mirrors and freestanding oval display cabinets of c. 1935.