Survey Data
Reg No
11822032
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1760 - 1800
Coordinates
279522, 195960
Date Recorded
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Date Updated
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Description
terrace three-bay three-storey house, c.1780, retaining early fenestration. Renovated, c.1920, with timber shopfront inserted to right ground floor. Reroofed, c.1980. Now disused to right ground floor. One of a pair. Gable-ended roof. Replacement artificial slate, c.1980. Concrete ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stack. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Painted. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Early 3/3 and 6/6 timber sash windows. Replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1995. Timber shopfront, c.1920, to right ground floor with pilasters having consoles, fixed-pane display windows and glazed timber panelled double doors with overlight and timber fascia over having decorative consoles and moulded cornice. Road fronted. Tarmacadam footpath to front.
Appraisal
This house is a fine and well-maintained substantial building of unusual appearance, with expansive wall masses barely relieved by gracefully-proportioned window openings and with a door opening discreetly positioned to one corner. The house is of social and historic interest, representing the early development of the Quaker settlement in Ballitore in the late eighteenth century. Renovated in the early twentieth century to accommodate a commercial use to right ground floor, the timber shopfront is an attractive addition to the composition, representing the true traditional Irish model on a symmetrical plan, which ought to be preserved - the shopfront emphasises the social and historic significance of the house, attesting to the continued commercialisation of Ballitore. The house retains many important early or original materials, including multi-pane timber sash fenestration (some without horns to ground and first floor, suggesting that they are original), and cast-iron rainwater goods to the roof. The house is an imposing feature of the streetscape on the road leading out of the historic core of the village to the south and is an integral component of the terrace.