Survey Data
Reg No
12506170
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1900 - 1920
Coordinates
246837, 198222
Date Recorded
29/08/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey former house, built c.1910, built as part of a pair with no. 6 (12506169). Pitched replacement slate roof, roll-moulded terracotta ridge tiles, red brick chimneystack now incorporated into that of No.4, plastic gutter, steel downpipe. Redbrick walling laid in English garden wall bond, rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings to first floor segmental-headed to ground floor (including door) formed in brick, with sandstone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Replacement timber panelled door and overlight with champfered sandstone to base of door opening. Opens directly to street.
Appraisal
A simple early twentieth-century terraced house which, although it has lost most of its external original features, still contributes, together with its neighbours, to make an attractive red brick terrace. As an integral part of the urban fabric of the town, it adds to the special character and architectural landscape of Portlaoise.