Survey Data
Reg No
40843018
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1830 - 1860
Coordinates
192921, 378362
Date Recorded
23/11/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay three-storey house, built c. 1840, having retail outlet with modern shopfront to ground floor. One of a pair with the building adjacent to the east (see 40843019). Pitched natural slate roof having projecting stone eaves course and with smooth rendered chimneystack to either end (east and west); chimneystack to the east shared with adjacent building. Some remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed squared sandstone walls with roughly dressed sandstone voussoirs over window openings. Render finish to the west gable end. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills, and having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows at first floor level and three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows at second floor level. Square-headed window opening at ground floor level having replacement window. Modern timber shopfront over ground floor window opening. Square-headed doorway to the west end of the front elevation (north-west) having replacement double-leaf timber door with herring bone pattern, triple-pane overlight, and with cut stone plinth blocks to base. Road-fronted to the south side of the Diamond, Donegal Town.
Appraisal
Despite alteration at ground level, this appealing and well-proportioned building retains much of its early architectural character and form. The retention of the early sash windows and the natural slate roof adds to it architectural integrity and visual expression. It is robustly-built in good quality local sandstone masonry, possibly from the nearby quarries at Mountcharles. Its forms part of a pair of buildings along with its neighbour adjoining to the east (see 40843019), which together make a strongly-positive contribution to the streetscape to the south side of The Diamond, Donegal Town. This building and its related neighbour may have been built as a single property (possibly as an hotel) and later subdivided. This building is an integral element of the built heritage of the town.