Survey Data
Reg No
31204086
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
Date
1855 - 1865
Coordinates
124486, 318817
Date Recorded
09/12/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey house, rebuilt 1860[?]; extant 1890. Renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles terminating in rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hopper and downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins (first floor) or rusticated rendered piers (top floor) to ends. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills[?], and rendered lugged surrounds with hood mouldings over framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings (top floor) with rendered sill course, and moulded rendered surrounds having bull nose-detailed reveals framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Street fronted with cobbled footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century built heritage of Ballina with the architectural value of the composition, one most likely retaining at least the shell of a house (extant 1838) displaying a comparable footprint on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey (published 1839), suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form; and the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression with those openings showing sleek "stucco" refinements. Although recently modified at street level, those works involving the introduction of a generic shopfront of minimal design interest, the elementary form and massing survive intact overhead together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, thereby upholding much of the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in O'Rahilly Street.