Survey Data
Reg No
12314012
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Shop/retail outlet
In Use As
House
Date
1790 - 1810
Coordinates
241347, 143670
Date Recorded
15/06/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced four-bay three-storey house, c.1800. Possibly subsequently in use as Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, pre-1840. Renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Extensively renovated with right ground floor now returned to residential use. Pitched slate roof mostly reroofed with replacement artificial slate, rendered chimney stack, rendered coping, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Painted rendered walls with rendered channelled piers to ends, and rendered course to each floor. Square-headed window openings (originally camber-headed to first floor retaining original profile to right first floor) with rendered sills forming part of sill course, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Rendered shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor with part-fluted pilasters, fixed-pane (two-light) timber display windows, timber panelled double doors (replacement glazed timber panelled door to house having sidelight), fascia over with decorative consoles, and moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A well-proportioned substantial house retaining much of the original form and massing despite substantial renovation projects at the beginning and end of the twentieth century. A shopfront of some artistic design merit enhances the importance of the site in the streetscape: however, the replacement of much of the historic fabric with inappropriate modern materials has led to the erosion of some of the character of the site. The house is of some additional importance for the possible historic use as a Royal Irish Constabulary barracks as indicated on archival editions of the Ordnance Survey.