Survey Data
Reg No
31212143
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1900 - 1917
Coordinates
99704, 284232
Date Recorded
26/08/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey house, extant 1917, with shopfront to ground floor. Renovated, 2000. Replacement pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in rendered chimney stacks having capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered stepped eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rendered pilasters to ends. Shopfront to ground floor on a symmetrical plan. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) including square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with moulded rendered sills, and moulded rendered surrounds having bull nose-detailed reveals framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house 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), confirmed by such attributes as the compact near-square plan form; the uniform proportions of the openings on each floor with those openings showing mildly eccentric "stucco" refinements; and the high pitched roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original or replicated fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including a Classically-composed shopfront of artistic interest making a pleasing visual statement in High Street at street level.