Survey Data
Reg No
13622094
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Worker's house
In Use As
House
Date
1890 - 1895
Coordinates
309332, 274635
Date Recorded
08/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced four-bay single-storey former worker's house, dated 1892, now in private domestic use. Extension to east, gabled canopy to door, west elevation. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystacks, cast-iron gutters on eaves, circular cast-iron downpipe. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond, smooth rendered plinth course, continuous red brick sill course and recessed band to lintel level. Segmental-headed window openings, roll-moulded red brick soffits, uPVC windows. Segmental-headed door opening surmounted by gabled canopy, painted timber bargeboards and finial, supported on cast-iron brackets, roll-moulded red brick soffit, frosted-glass overlight, timber panelled door with sidelight; red brick plinth walls flanking entrance, polychromatic tiles and tooled stone threshold. Located on west-facing slope, garden to east, separated from house by concrete lane. Brick lean-to outbuilding to yard to east, bounded by red brick wall, accessed through wrought-iron gate.
Appraisal
Built as one of an attractive row of twenty worker's houses by the Cairnes Trust of Cairne's Brewery in Drogheda, this, along with its neighbour, is slightly larger in size than others in the row as they form the central houses of the terrace. Still visible in the rear yard is the outhouse built as a toilet, a luxury for the time of building. Bullet holes can be seen in the front elevation, a casualty of the 1922 shooting by the British troops from the local station in their collision with Republicans, giving an insight into the history of the area.