Dublin City Council

Bank/financial institution in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1780–1890

Corner-sited attached three-storey ashlar limestone L-plan former bank over slightly raised basement, built c. 1781 and substantially enlarged c. 1862. Terminates east end of south side of Lord Edward Street and north side of Castle Street and facing onto Cork Hill. Façade to Cork Hill has shallow breakfront, five-bay ground floor with Ionic entrance portico and six-bay mirror-image upper floors, Castle Street elevation has three bays, and Lord Edward Street elevation (altered c. 1884) has single bay to return of main façade, with three-bay curving block set back and fronted by projecting bowed block of one storey over exposed basement added c. 1862. Pitched and hipped slate roofs, set behind balustrade, with blue-black angle clay ridge and hip tiles, ashlar limestone chimneystack to north elevation, and smooth cement rendered block-marked chimneystacks with granite cappings and yellow pots to south. Parapet gutters, with lead downpipes to south re-entrant corner of breakfront and to north elevation. Balustraded parapet with plain dies to south elevation, twin pedestals to east with egg-and-dart moulding to recessed panels, modillion-dentillated cornice and swag and roundel frieze. Ashlar Portland stone walling polished and having moulded top plinth to basement, channelled rustication to ground floor with moulded strings surmounted by moulded cornice, and polished ashlar Portla

Type:
Bank/financial institution

Period:
1780–1890

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.34°N, 6.27°W

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