bank/financial institution, 45, Upper Main Street · NIAH 40502086

Attached corner-sited three-bay two-storey former bank, built or rebuilt c. 1905 and altered c. 1931 or 1933, having bankfront\shopfront at ground floor level and multiple-bay two- and three-storey extensions to rear (c. 1933). Also formerly in use as commercial offices at first floor level. Originally built or rebuilt as a branch of the Munster and Leinster Bank and later in use as a branch of the AIB (until 1981); formerly win use as IMED office, and McKinney & O'Callaghan print. Now disused. Pitched natural slate roof, with raised balustraded parapet to façade (west) having projecting rendered cornice supported by modillions, smooth rendered piers at intervals along length of balustrade having rectangular inset panels, moulded stepped coping over, smooth rendered chimneystacks with stepped coping and terracotta pots, and with cast-iron rainwater goods having decorative hoppers and cast-iron downpipes. Gable-fronted half-dormer window to attic level at rear of (east) of main section of building. Smooth rendered walls with rendered block-and-start quoins to corners, and stepped stringcourse over window openings at first floor, smooth rendered channelled walls at ground floor level. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined wall to side gable elevation, with chamfered wall to southeast corner at rear. Square-headed window openings to first floor with articulated rendered pilasters surmounted by moulded brackets supporting moulded cornice lintels over to end bays and with triangular pediment to central-bay window, and with one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Square headed window openings to ground floor with plate glass windows surmounted by dentilated timber lintel, and with top-hung timber casement windows over, and with rendered sills. Square-headed door opening to the north end of the main elevation having timber panelled double doors flanked by Doric pilasters supporting moulded cornice lintel over surmounted by foliate console brackets, and with rectangular overlight with margin glazing bars. Bankfront at ground floor (probably altered c. 1933) having fluted pilasters to ends and between openings with Composite capitals over with egg-and-dart detailing supporting modern fascia over (possibly concealing early fascia over) having moulded cornice over with modillions. Two- and three-storey extensions to rear (east) with modern metal fire escape to south, hipped and pitched natural slate roofs, smooth rendered walls, and square-headed window openings with a variety of horned timber sliding sash windows (some at ground floor level with wrought-iron security rails). Road-fronted to the south side of Upper Main Street, and located to the north end of Letterkenny town centre. Car park and vacant site to rear of property (east).