The Ormond Wine Bar — Ormond Quay Upper

The saved account records: Attached two-bay four-storey house, built 1686, projecting forward of streetline to east, recessed behind streetline to west, and having later shopfront inserted to front (south) and east elevations.

The saved account records: Pitched slate roof set perpendicular to street, hipped to front elevation, with clay ridge tiles.

The saved account records: Raised parapet wall with granite coping.

The saved account records: Brick walls laid in Flemish bond to upper floors.

The Ormond Wine Bar — Ormond Quay Upper matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: Ormond Quay was constructed in the late seventeenth century, the first of the quays on the north side of the river. This townhouse, built for secretary to the Privy Council Sir William Doyne, is a particularly noteworthy early survivor from this period. Though the altered in subsequent centuries, the later timber sash windows and timber shopfront provide subtle decorative interest to the façade, the latter enlivened by cornices and unusual latticed glazing. A number of noteworthy persons resided on the quay, including Sir Humphrey Jervis, who reclaimed the land from the estuary of the River Bradogue, c.1675, and… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.