Survey Data
Reg No
31204015
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Hotel
Date
1800 - 1838
Coordinates
124219, 318747
Date Recorded
08/12/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay three-storey townhouse, extant 1838. Renovated, 2006, with shopfront inserted to ground floor to accommodate continued alternative use. One of a pair. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in cement rendered chimney stacks having shallow capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered cut-limestone eaves[?]. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (upper floors): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A townhouse erected as one of a pair (including 31204016) representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Ballina with the architectural value of the composition, one of the 'many new houses built [within the last ten years] by merchants and others engaged in trade and commerce' (Lewis 1837 I, 104), confirmed by such traits as the compact plan form; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior: the introduction of replacement fittings to the openings, however, has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of a townhouse forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in Kevin Barry Street.