Survey Data
Reg No
31204076
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1875 - 1880
Coordinates
124539, 318892
Date Recorded
09/12/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced single-bay three-storey house, built 1876; extant 1890. Renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. One of a pair. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack having rendered red brick capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron hopper and downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a pair (including 31204075) representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century built heritage of Ballina with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the slender plan form; and the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression with the principal "apartment" defined by a polygonal oriel window. Although recently modified at street level, those works involving the substitution of a traditional Irish shopfront of artistic interest, the elementary form and massing survive intact overhead together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby upholding much of the character or integrity of a house forming part of a neat self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in Pearse Street.