Survey Data
Reg No
15605037
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1815 - 1835
Coordinates
271909, 127616
Date Recorded
21/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey house, c.1825. Renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Refenestrated. Now disused. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond (shared) chimney stacks having stepped capping, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Timber shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor with pilasters on cut-stone padstones, replacement display window, replacement glazed timber panelled door, and fascia having slate-lined moulded cornice. Interior with timber panelled shutters to some window openings. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.
Appraisal
A pleasantly appointed modest-scale house built as one of a group of three houses (including 15605036) making a dignified contribution to the streetscape aesthetic of North Street with attributes including the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor in the Classical manner producing an elegant tiered visual effect, the understated surface detailing, and so on, all identifying the architectural design value of the composition. Although some of the character or external expression of the composition has been compromised following the introduction of replacement fittings to the openings, the elementary attributes prevail together with an appealing traditional Irish shopfront of artistic design interest, thereby maintaining some of the integrity of the collective ensemble in the street scene.