Survey Data
Reg No
15009262
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1770 - 1800
Coordinates
204024, 241436
Date Recorded
08/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey house, built c.1785. One of a pair with building to the north. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course and a shared roughcast rendered chimneystack to north end. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills and replacement windows. Round-headed doorcase to north end with limestone block-and-start surround, timber panelled door and plain fanlight over. Road-fronted on corner site.
Appraisal
A substantial terraced house which retains its early form and character. The fine doorcase is a noteworthy feature of artistic merit. This attractive terrace was constructed in the late eighteenth-century, a period of relative economic prosperity in Ireland, and probably originally housed a local merchant family. This building remains an important component of the historic streetscape of Athlone.