Allied Irish Bank — Grafton Street

Attached four-bay four-storey commercial building with half dormer attic, built 1881, with recent shopfront to front (east) elevation, and series of extensions to rear. Currently in use as bank and offices. M-profile pitched roof, concealed behind solid brick parapet, with carved limestone coping and decorative iron railings, and having two pedimented attic dormers rising above parapet. Red brick walls, laid in Flemish bond, with moulded brick and carved limestone cornice, raised brick stringcourses between floors, and strip-quoins. Square-headed window openings to first floor and segmental-headed to floors above, double openings to attic storey, with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, having bull-nosed brick reveals and generally moulded red brick lintels, with continuous sill course to first floor and limestone sills elsewhere. Raised brick block-and-start brick quoins to middle floors, with limestone keystones to first and third floor openings, those to first floor topped with spherical finials. Shopfront comprising panelled limestone pilasters and limestone cornice, with decorative iron railing above, frames recent limestone and marble shopfront with square-headed openings.