Survey Data
Reg No
14807066
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical
Previous Name
Grand Central Cinema
Original Use
Cinema
In Use As
Hall
Date
1920 - 1925
Coordinates
234030, 225083
Date Recorded
12/10/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached corner-sited gable-fronted three-bay two-storey former cinema, built in 1924, with extension to west and abutting building to rear. Fronts directly onto street. Pitched slate roof with modern vent pipe, hidden behind rendered parapet with stone coping and finial. Ruled-and-lined render to walls with rendered quoins to first floor front elevation and yellow brick to ground floor, with rendered plinth, string course and circular plaque to front elevation reading 'Irish National Foresters 1923'. Timber casement windows with rendered surrounds and painted sills. Blind window openings to east elevation with rendered surrounds and cornice above. Segmental-headed door opening with rendered surround to timber panelled door accessed via stone steps with cast-iron railings.
Appraisal
This former cinema, fronting onto Market Square, still retains some architectural detailing. The gable front, with its large rendered doorway encased in yellow brick, the fine rendered surrounds to the windows and doors, along with small details such as the oculus window and wall plaque add to architectural significance of the premises.