Survey Data
Reg No
12314003
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Munster and Leinster Bank
Original Use
Bank/financial institution
In Use As
Bank/financial institution
Date
1890 - 1910
Coordinates
241403, 143685
Date Recorded
15/06/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced four-bay three-storey Classical-style bank, c.1900, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay three-storey return to east. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan behind parapet with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond and rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Unpainted rendered walls with channelling to ground floor having frieze over on moulded stringcourse, moulded cornice, channelled piers to ends to upper floors, stringcourse to second floor, and moulded rendered cornice supporting parapet having rendered coping. Round-headed openings to ground floor with moulded rendered sills forming sill course, rendered channelled voussoirs, fixed-pane (three-light) timber windows having iron sill guards, and timber panelled door on cut-limestone step having overlight. Square-headed window openings to upper floors with cut-limestone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from line of road with tarmacadam forecourt. (ii) Gateway, c.1900, to south comprising round-headed carriageway with unpainted rendered channelled piers, channelled voussoirs, timber panelled double doors having wicket gate, frieze on moulded stringcourse, and moulded cornice supporting blocking course to parapet.
Appraisal
An elegantly-composed substantial bank forming a pleasant landmark in Green Street (Edmund Ignatius Rice Street) on account of the vertical emphasis of the massing. Finely detailed in the Classical manner the composition includes a number of motifs that serve to form a visual link with further sites in the street: the round-headed openings to ground floor, for instance, are reminiscent of the arcade in the nearby market house (12314001/KK-26-14-01). Having been very well maintained the bank presents an early aspect with substantial quantities of the original fabric surviving intact both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby making a valuable contribution to the historic quality of the streetscape.