Survey Data
Reg No
12506220
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1870 - 1890
Coordinates
246881, 198294
Date Recorded
29/08/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey former house, built c. 1880, with shopfront inserted c. 1990. Pitched slate roof, terracotta ridge tiles, and tall shared rendered chimneystack to east. Steel gutter, cast-iron hopper and downpipe. Painted rough-cast rendered walling. Square-headed window openings, patent rendered reveals, painted stone sills, aluminium windows. Hardwood shopfront comprises fixed-pane display window and inset glazed timber panelled door on timber panels flanked by fluted pilasters with fascia over. Round-headed door opening to upper floor with replacement hardwood panelled door and fanlight. Earlier dentiled cornice visible above fascia. Limestone step to entrance to upper floor. Original plaster cornice and timber joinery to traditional-style shop interior.
Appraisal
Despite the loss of external historic fabric the building maintains its façade composition, a sympathetic replacement shopfront and some internal historic features. It is an essential part of the understated architectural character of Market Square, forming part of an important late nineteenth-century terrace. As an integral part of the urban fabric of the town core, it adds to the special character and architectural landscape of Portlaoise.