Survey Data
Reg No
40809011
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Shop/retail outlet
In Use As
House
Date
1850 - 1890
Coordinates
261108, 438471
Date Recorded
16/10/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870. One of a pair with the building adjoining to the south-east (see 40809012). Probably formerly in use as a retail outlet, now in use as a private house. Pitched artificial slate roof with smooth rendered coped chimneystack to north-west gable end, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls over smooth rendered plinth course, and with raised smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners to the north-west end of the front elevation. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash windows, and with painted stone sills; square-headed window opening to the north-west end of the front elevation at ground floor level having two paired one-over-one fixed pane timber windows with moulded timber mullion and transom. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door and plain overlight. Fronts directly onto street, to the north-west of the centre of Moville.
Appraisal
This modest terraced house, dating to the second half of the nineteenth century, retains its early form and character. Its integrity and visual appeal is enhanced by the retention of salient fabric such as the timber sliding sash windows while the fixed-pane timber window opening with moulded timber mullion and transom adds some additional interest and suggests that this building was formerly\originally also in use as a retail outlet. This building is of a type that was, until recent years, a ubiquitous feature of the streetscapes of small Irish towns and villages but are now becoming increasingly rare survivals. This building forms part of an attractive pair along with its neighbour (see 40809012) to the south-east, and it makes a positive contribution to the streetscape to the north-west of the centre of Moville.