Survey Data
Reg No
15307029
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social, Technical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1810 - 1830
Coordinates
230671, 259285
Date Recorded
21/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with shopfront to ground-floor c.1900. Hipped artificial slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with square-headed window openings, cut stone sills and replacement windows. Traditional timber shopfront to west-end having timber pilasters with decorative consoles supporting timber fascia board with timber cornice over. Shop display windows flank main entrance which comprises of a square-headed opening with glazed timber panelled double-doors and plain overlight above. Road-fronted towards centre of Ballynacarrigy.
Appraisal
A heavily altered early nineteenth-century building, which is distinguished by the retention of an attractive traditional timber shopfront. This shopfront contributes immensely to the character of the streetscape of Ballynacarrigy and is of artistic merit. The high-quality carving and workmanship in the shopfront is typical of traditional late nineteenth /early twentieth-century timber shopfronts in Irish towns and villages. Unfortunately, these are now becoming increasingly rare survivals in Westmeath today.