Reg No
20512546
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
Historical Use
School
In Use As
Hostel
Date
1830 - 1850
Coordinates
167978, 72321
Date Recorded
26/09/1995
Date Updated
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Terraced three-bay three-storey former house, built c. 1840, as part of a terrace of ten houses with the adjoining houses to the east and west. Now in use as hostel and having dormer addition. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack, rendered parapet and dormer windows. Rendered walls with moulded render eaves course, and having render string course between ground and first floors. Replacement timber sash windows with stone sills. Replacement timber panelled door with flanking pilasters, moulded cornice and toplight. Stone paving to site, approached by flight of limestone steps. Cast-iron railings set on rubble stone boundary walls.
Built as part of a terrace of ten houses, this house forms part of a grand terrace design. The scale and form of the houses create an imposing and uniform group. The central pair differ from the flanking houses and are defined by the subtle breakfront, stepped parapet, channelled render and slightly recessed ground floor openings. The houses at the east and west end of the terrace are again slightly breakfronted and have stepped parapets, which create a defined termination to the block The building retains many interesting features and materials, while the site of this terrace is enhanced by the limestone paving, steps and cast-iron railings. Formerly Scoil Ite 1916 - 1954 founded by Mary & Eithne Mac Swiney.