Survey Data
Reg No
15009240
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1805
Coordinates
204078, 241467
Date Recorded
08/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced four-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c.1803, with integral square-headed carriage arch to north. Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystack to either end, cast-iron rainwater goods and projecting eaves course. Lime rendered roughcast walls with cast-iron wall ties over plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with surviving early glass. Square-headed doorcase with timber door. Road fronted on small lane running down from Church Street towards to River Shannon.
Appraisal
A highly attractive and important vernacular house dating from the very start of the nineteenth century. The irregular fenestration and the uneven walls give this house a great character. It is one of the few buildings in Athlone which retains its lime plaster rendering and early glass. This building is a very rare example of an urban vernacular house still surviving in its early form in Westmeath.