Ulster Bank — Abbey Street

The saved account records: banking hall (north) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling

The saved account records: Detached three- or four-bay two-storey bank with dormer attic, designed 1904

The saved account records: Hipped gabled slate roof centred on pair of lean-to slate roofs to window openings to dormer attic, roll moulded terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on box eaves retaining cast-iron conical hoppers and downpipes.

The saved account records: Roughcast walls (ground floor) on "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cushion course on rendered plinth with rendered block quoins to corners supporting iron-covered "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice on blind frieze

Ulster Bank — Abbey Street matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A bank erected to designs signed (1904) by Blackwood and Jury (formed 1901) of Donegall Place, Belfast (DIA), representing an important component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of Ballyhaunis with the architectural value of the composition confirmed by such attributes as the compact square plan form; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the high pitched roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.