Survey Data
Reg No
31212090
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
The Fashion Shop
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1900 - 1917
Coordinates
99673, 284303
Date Recorded
19/08/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement house, extant 1917, with shopfront to ground floor. One of a pair. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron hopper and downpipe. Roughcast walls with rusticated rendered piers to ends. Timber shopfront to ground floor. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-limestone sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. 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. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a pair (including 31212089) representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of Westport with the architectural value of the composition, one photographed by Robert French (1841-1917) of Dublin (NLI), 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. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including a Classically-detailed shopfront of artistic interest making a pleasing visual statement in Shop Street at street level.