1790 – Westmoreland Street, Dublin
Leading from College Green to O’Connell Bridge and named after John Fane, tenth Earl of Westmoreland and Lord Lieutenant 1790-94. One of the last streets to be laid out by the Wide Streets Commissioners,
Leading from College Green to O’Connell Bridge and named after John Fane, tenth Earl of Westmoreland and Lord Lieutenant 1790-94. One of the last streets to be laid out by the Wide Streets Commissioners,
A Wide Street Commissioners building that was demolished to make way for offices for the Northern Fire and Life Assurance Company.
Approved design for the Wide Streets Commissioner for facade treatement to Westmoreland Street. A further design was what was eventually constructed.
Where D’Olier and Westmoreland Streets meet the quays and Carlisle Bridge was designed as an important architectural setpiece by the Wide Streets Commissioners.
Three Wide Streets Commissioners buildings built on their usual narrow lots, with later additions, demolished for the Westin Hotel in the late 1990s.
At the junction of College Street and Westmoreland Street, once stranded on a traffic island with a disused public toilet (now removed) is this statue to the Irish bard Thomas Moore.
A rebuilt and revised corner building on a Wide Streets Commissioners plan, on D’Olier and Westmoreland Street facing across Carlisle Bridge.
Designed for the Scottish Equitable Insurance Company, hence presumedly the vague Scottish Baronial style of the building.
Designed as the Cramer Wood Music Store, this building has fine polychromatic brickwork and stone trimmings.
Orginally built in 1875, with some minor additions in 1879, for Scottish Widows, this was for many years a bank branch of AIB.