Survey Data
Reg No
12507028
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1900 - 1920
Coordinates
247444, 198396
Date Recorded
29/08/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached two-bay two-storey house, built c. 1910, with a ground floor bay window. Pitched artificial slate roof, terracotta ridge tiles, cement fractable to west gable and cement rendered chimneystack rising from west gable with clay pots. Metal gutter and cast-iron downpipe. Painted rusticated cement rendered walling, pebbledash render to west gable. Canted bay window to ground floor with an artificial slate roof over entrance and window spanning across to adjoining house. Square-headed window openings, with painted granite sills, uPVC windows to both floors. Recessed entrance with square-headed door opening having replacement timber glazed door and granite step. Concrete path and replacement steel gate on original iron posts, garden enclosed by rendered wall.
Appraisal
One of four similar houses, as an early twentieth-century example of speculative housing, they are an important set-piece on Stradbally Road and represent the extension of the streetscape from Bridge Street. The buildings are an integral part of the urban fabric of the historic town core and make a positive contribution to the architectural landscape of Portlaoise.