Survey Data
Reg No
15009265
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Apartment/flat (converted)
Date
1760 - 1780
Coordinates
204016, 241461
Date Recorded
08/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey over basement house, built c.1770. Now divided into apartments. Pitched natural slate roof (recently sprocketed) with projecting eaves course and brick chimneystacks to either end. Lime roughcast rendered over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and a Venetian window to first floor and three-over-six pane timber sliding sash to second floor. Some early crown glass still remains insitu. Round-headed doorcase with cut-stone architraved surround with keystone, fielded timber panelled door and plain fanlight over. Remains of late-eighteenth century doorcase built into rear return. Road-fronted.
Appraisal
An important late eighteenth-century town house with some interesting Palladian features, such as the Venetian window to the first floor. It retains its early form and character and some important early fabric including the lime rendering and crown glass. The doorcases are noteworthy features of artistic merit. This fine house forms part of an attractive terrace of late eighteenth-century houses and remains an integral component of the historic streetscape of Athlone.