Áras Treasa — Clarendon Street

Attached corner-sited two- and three-bay three-storey office, built c. 1910, with single-bay canted entrance at junction of Clarendon Street and Coppinger Row. Flat roof hidden behind parapet with deep moulded cement crown cornice having cast-iron box hopper and downpipe breaking through to south end and further plastic hopper and downpipe breaking through to west end. Machine-made redbrick walls laid in Flemish bond to upper floors with channel-rusticated cement soldier strip quoins framing each bay and plain frieze below cornice. Entrance bay and west bay to north elevation having cement rendered and moulded walls. Channel-rusticated rendered ground floor with plain pilasters framing each bay, continuous moulded plinth course, sill course and cornice. Square-headed window openings, arranged in pairs to second floor, all having granite sills, architraves with cement apron panels to second floor and cornices to first floor. Original single-pane timber sash windows to second floor, tripartite timber casement windows with overlights to ground and first floors. Square-headed door opening to corner entrance bay having double-leaf hardwood panelled door and overpanel with rectangular overlight and Gaelic lettering reading ‘ÁRAS TREASA’. Door opens onto two tiled steps directly to street. Further attenuated square-headed door opening to west bay of north elevation having hardwood panelled door, glazed overlight and fluted hardwood surround.