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Attached double gable-fronted two-bay two-storey shop, built c. 1890. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron finials and roof lights. Rendered walls. Round-headed bipartite opening to first floor having render hood moulding and oculus over one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with flanking round-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows having render hood mouldings. Round-headed bipartite openings to first floor having render hood mouldings and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Shopfronts comprising moulded render cornice and brackets. Square-headed display windows with flanking half-glazed timber panelled doors. Round-headed openings with render surrounds over overlights over half-glazed doors.
Well-composed building retaining its original form and salient features such as the cast-iron finials and slate roof. The windows are particularly ornate having render surrounds, hood mouldings and sash windows. The composition is enhanced by the render shop fronts which provide further artistic interest to the façade.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20827350

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Photo credits
  • Mac McCarron, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Ralph Rawlinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Donald MacDonald, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • DeFacto, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Peter Craine, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Charles Vallancey, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Arco Ardon from Dordrecht, Netherlands, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Guliolopez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • derek menzies, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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