Survey Data
Reg No
31209036
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1700 - 1838
Coordinates
114647, 290487
Date Recorded
19/11/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house, extant 1838[?]. Renovated, 1997, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with ridge tiles terminating in cement rendered chimney stacks having stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Tuck pointed drag edged tooled limestone ashlar wall to front (north-west) elevation. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Street fronted with cobbled footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the built heritage of Castlebar with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such traits as the compact plan form; the construction in a "sparrow pecked" silver-grey limestone demonstrating good quality workmanship; and the high pitched roofline. Although recently (1997) modified at street level, 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 Bridge Street.