Survey Data
Reg No
15000052
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Public house
Date
1750 - 1790
Coordinates
203563, 241305
Date Recorded
06/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay three-storey house, built c.1770, with shopfront added c.1870. Now derelict. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to either end. Smooth rendered with raised block quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings to the upper floors having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and cut stone sills. Wooden shutters with raised and fielded panels to the first floor window openings. Shopfront to ground floor removed and replaced by sheet metal doors. Small square-headed carriage arch to eastern most bay with timber double doors and stone wheel guards. Street-fronted.
Appraisal
An interesting late eighteenth-century structure, which retains most of its original form and fabric. Of particular interest are the surviving raised and fielded shutters to the first floor windows, which are rare survivals and suggest that more of the original interior fittings might survive intact. According to local information this structure contained a public house known as 'The Welcome Inn' until c.1990. Despite the removal of the shopfront this building remains an attractive feature in the streetscape of Athlone and it contributes positively to the historic nature of Connaught Street.