Survey Data
Reg No
15000330
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1750 - 1800
Coordinates
203890, 241380
Date Recorded
06/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1775, now in use as commercial premises with accommodation over. Pitched natural slate roof with a raised verge and a brick chimneystack to the south gable end. Evidence that a chimneystack was recently removed to north end. Rendered walls with square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows; two openings to first floor and one to second floor. Modern shopfront to ground floor incorporating remains of carved timber console brackets from earlier shopfront, c.1900. Road-fronted.
Appraisal
An attractive terraced building that survives with its character, massing and many salient features intact. The unusually narrow front façade suggests that this building was built on a medieval house plot and possibly contains the fabric of an earlier structure. The shallow window reveals suggest a mid-eighteenth century date but the present timber sash windows are of late nineteenth date. This interesting building has great streetscape value and adds to the historic feel to the urban core of Athlone. Built on the site of the former medieval market place.