Ulster Bank

Terraced three-bay two-storey bank, built in 1925, with attic accommodation. Pitched artificial slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, brick chimneystacks and dormer window. Ashlar stone to ground floor with pilasters and string course. Red brick to first floor with stone dentil cornice and dressings. Timber casement and sash windows. Timber panelled door with fanlight above, with carved door surround, flanked by engaged columns with entablature above. Cast-iron railings to front.

This fine example of regional bank building was designed by G. F. Beckett and C. A. Harrington. The form of the building and the materials used in its construction make a positive contribution to the streetscape. The building is an interesting architectural addition to the streetscape as it is representative of architectural design in the first half of the twentieth century. It is an interesting variation in the predominantly nineteenth-century streetscape of Athboy.