Survey Data
Reg No
20841112
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Shop/retail outlet
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1880
Coordinates
111986, 33674
Date Recorded
26/06/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay three-storey house and shop, built c.1860, with disused shopfront to ground floor. Now in use as house. Pitched roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted smooth rendered walls. Square-headed openings with uPVC windows and rendered sills. Render and timber shopfront comprising paired pilasters flanking openings with capitals supporting architrave, fascia board and cornice above. Square-headed opening with timber fixed pane display window. Square-headed door opening with overlight and replacement timber panelled door.
Appraisal
Forming part of a terrace, the pleasing proportions of this façade are much enlivened by the retention of a well-executed render shopfront to the ground floor. This terrace of houses adds rhythm and coherence to the streetscape of Skibbereen.