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Gentlemens club in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1855–1865

Corner-sited three-storey L-plan former gentlemen's club over raised basement, built 1859-61. Open portico to front elevation and canted-bay to lower floors of north elevation. Interior reordered 1971. Front (west) elevation has five-bay ground and first floors and nine-bay top floor, and side (north) elevation has three-bay ground and first floors and four-bay top floor. Now in use as cultural centre and café to north part and library reading room and museum to south part. L-plan pitched artificial slate roof to north half, hipped to east end, with red brick chimneystacks having corbelled and dentillated brick copings, with yellow brick banding to east chimneystack, and variety of clay pots. South end of building has flat roof with artificial slate to sloping sides to east and west. Dog-toothed limestone parapet on deep moulded and bracketed limestone eaves cornice, with concealed gutters and box-profile cast-iron downpipes. English bond red brick walling, except for east elevation and basement which are in English garden wall bond. Ashlar limestone dressings, including flush platbands, projecting impost mouldings, cut stone sill course to ground floor, rich foliate carvings to sill course to first floor and moulded sill course to top floor, and recessed colonnettes to northwest corner to ground and first floors. Rendered to rear wall of infill. Rear elevation of six bays in b

Type:
Gentlemens club

Period:
1855–1865

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.34°N, 6.25°W

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