Reg No
50080629
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Shop/retail outlet
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
315018, 233583
Date Recorded
23/10/2013
Date Updated
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Terraced two-bay three-storey former house, built c.1820, with shopfront to front (west) elevation. Now in use as shop. M-profile pitched roof with brick chimneystack hidden behind parapet with granite coping. Rendered walls with projecting plinth course. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and recent timber windows. Shopfront having panelled pilasters supporting fascia with dentillated cornice. Display windows with timber mullions and toplights. Square-headed door openings, with glazed timber door to shop and with roller shutter to door leading to upper floors.
No.58 has a long history as a general store, as the property of John Murphy, a general merchant, in the mid-nineteenth century, and John O’Loughlin, a druggist and general sundryman, in the late nineteenth century. O’Loughlin sold medicinal drugs and household goods ranging from soap, tallow, pepper, soda, cement and cocoa to writing ink. No.58 is likely to have been constructed as a pair with No.59 to the south as it retains a similar roofline and fenestration pattern, and this regularity of form adds to the character of the streetscape.