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Restaurant on Wicklow Street

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Restaurant on Wicklow Street
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Originally restaurant; recorded by the architectural inventory as shop/retail outlet
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Attached two-bay four-storey commercial building, erected 1915-16, with recent timber shopfront to ground floor. Flat roof, with unpainted rendered chimneystacks to east party wall, concealed behind chequered red brick and granite parapet over moulded granite stringcourse with moulded granite coping. Red brick…

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Attached two-bay four-storey commercial building, erected 1915-16, with recent timber shopfront to ground floor. Flat roof, with unpainted rendered chimneystacks to east party wall, concealed behind chequered red brick and granite parapet over moulded granite stringcourse with moulded granite coping. Red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, with granite bands at sill levels. Bays defined by engaged triangular-plan granite pilasters supported by moulded brackets at first floor level. Square-headed window openings, with granite sills, decorative granite aprons, brick voussoirs and timber casement windows.
An early twentieth-century commercial premises, built for the Elcho Café to the designs of P.J. Munden. It is characterized by unusual triangular-plan pilasters and granite dressings, the eclectic detailing making the building a noteworthy addition to this architecturally diverse streetscape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 50910164

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