Survey Data

Reg No

20514070


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Social


Original Use

Building misc


In Use As

Building misc


Date

1870 - 1890


Coordinates

167308, 71700


Date Recorded

11/06/2002


Date Updated

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Description

End-of-terrace seven-bay four-storey Masonic Lodge, c. 1880. Slate pitched roof. Unpainted render finish to upper floors with rusticated render finish to pilasters and plain inset panels under windows. One over one timber sliding sash windows to upper floors. Moulded cornice with brackets to first floor level. Painted, banded render to ground floor. Two square headed entrance openings to ground floor having plain overlights. Metal grilles to ground floor windows.

Appraisal

Imposing nineteenth-century end of terrace building on a prominent site. Significant in housing the First Lodge of Ireland. The current building was restored in 1972, having been damaged in a fire the previous year.