Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MALL, NO. 005 (GRESHAM LIFE ASSURANCE CO.)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: WALKER, ROBERT [4]
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MALL, NO. 005 (GRESHAM LIFE ASSURANCE CO.)
Date: 1889
Nature: New offices being erected on site of Royal Exchange Assurance Co. building.. Youghal brick faced with Bridgwater brick with a large proportion of local limestone dressings; style 'a free treatment of the Renaissance'. 3 storeys. Bold granite columns. Oriel window in gable. Bas relief portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham.
Refs: Architect 42, 9 Aug 1889, suppl.p.1; IB 31, 1 Nov 1889, 267;  Roger Herlihy, A Walk through the South Parish (Cork: Red Abbey Publications, 2010), 63-64(illus.).