Arnotts

Department store in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1890–1895

Row-sited twelve-bay four-storey department store over basement with red brick, limestone and terracotta frontage, built 1894, having slightly projecting easternmost bay, and with modern glazed and metal shopfront inserted to ground floor below original shopfront. Central five-storey campanile with red brick parapet. Flat roof concealed behind red brick parapet with squared granite coping. Front (north) elevation comprising dentillated moulded eaves cornice over red brick walls in Flemish bond with moulded limestone and brick string course, impost and sill courses. Pink granite and limestone original shopfront to ground floor behind modern shopfront. Panelled red brick piers on limestone plinths separating bays to first, second and third floors. Central campanile having addition of dentillated cornice over fourth floor with limestone drip and sill courses, flanked by red brick piers supporting limestone semi-circular moulded pediment brackets to fourth floor. Central red brick pier supporting cast-iron scrolled bracket housing clock with shop name. Additional recent sign attached to central tower. Easternmost bay flanked to ground floor by marble piers on elongated timber panelled plinth blocks having crocket capitals supporting limestone entablature with scrolled panel to fascia, below dentillated cornice and having fluted hood ornament over with red brick piers flanking upper

Type:
Department store

Period:
1890–1895

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.35°N, 6.26°W

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