Survey Data
Reg No
31204088
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1723 - 1838
Coordinates
124482, 318865
Date Recorded
09/12/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced single-bay three-storey house with dormer attic, extant 1838[?]. Renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, central rooflight, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered red or yellow brick header bond eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hopper and downpipe. Rendered walls (upper floors). Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings over on fluted consoles framing six-over-six (first floor) or six-over-three (top floor) 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 splayed reveals or shutters. Street fronted with cobbled footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the built heritage of Ballina with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression with those openings showing sleek "stucco" refinements; and the high pitched roofline. Although much 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 making a pleasing visual statement in O'Rahilly Street.