Shop/retail outlet

Shop/retail outlet in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1925–1935

Corner-sited four-storey commercial and office building with dormer storey, over basement, dated 1929, having astylar canted corner bay, three bays each to north (Dame Street) and east (South Great Georges Street) elevations, laneway to south side, and wraparound shopfront to full-width of principal elevations. Flat roof, having mansard appearance to street elevations, with five pyramidal-roofed lights, slopes to street elevations of roof pierced by seven skylights set behind blue-glazed pantile mansard dormer roof with square Emerald Pearl Larvikate-clad dormers, above sweeping glazed vitreous clay cornice. Faience cladding to upper floors of principal elevations, with Giant Order stylized Ionic pilasters framing glazing set in vertical panels with moulded architraves to sides and tops. Faience mullions to corner elevation, moulded cornice, applied bronze signage 'Montague Burton The Tailor of Taste' to north elevation, blank panel in frieze on east elevation flanked by rosettes, roundel to corner bay containing 'B' having legend 'Established 1900 erected 1929' around. Upper floors carried on round-plan iron columns, each with four leg bases and capitals, exposed on exterior with curved window glass forming shopfront. Square-headed window panels to corner bay, each containing metal-framed casements and cast-iron transom details. Cantilevered metal balconies to top floor middle

Type:
Shop/retail outlet

Period:
1925–1935

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.34°N, 6.26°W

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