South City Markets (incl. George's Street Arcade)

Market building in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1875–1895

Freestanding multiple-bay three-storey market building with dormer attic, built 1878-81, occupying whole city block, with turrets to projecting angles, elaborate gabled centrepiece entrance projections to three streets, more modest entrance to fourth, and shopfronts to ground floor throughout. Drury Street facade interrupted by lower eight and ten-bay units. Partially rebuilt in 1892 following fire. Pitched slate roofs having gable-fronted dormer windows, panelled red brick chimneystacks, and cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Red brick balustrade over red brick walls, laid in Flemish bond, with paired terracotta stringcourses above first and second floors, bearing moulded lozenge ornament to first floor and corbel table to second floor. Further moulded impost course to second floor, continuing to form hood-mouldings to window openings. Window openings are variously organized, main elevation having nine quintuplets to second floor, each with blind middle opening, above two pairs of openings to first floor, with single openings to end bays of recessed parts of facade. Fade Street has four triplets, two quintuplets and one single, and Exchequer Street has four triplets, three quintuplets and two singles. Triple windows to turreted projections; projection at corner of Exchequer and Drury Streets has chamfered corner with double window. Segmental-headed openings to fir

Type:
Market building

Period:
1875–1895

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.34°N, 6.26°W

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