Survey Data
Reg No
13309007
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1830 - 1850
Coordinates
225998, 271709
Date Recorded
18/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Attached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1840. Hipped slate roof with central brick chimneystack, aligned parallel to roof ridge. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls with chamfered dressed stone quoins to the corners at ground floor level. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and replacement timber windows. Central round-headed door opening to main façade (southwest) with replacement timber door and plan overlight/fanlight, approached by flight of limestone steps with steel railings. Road-fronted to the southeast end of Main Street, Edgeworthstown.
Appraisal
This interesting and well-proportioned house occupies a prominent site to the southeast end of Main Street, Edgeworthstown. Despite alteration, it retains much of its early character. It retains much of its original form, including regularly spaced diminishing window openings and a central round-headed door opening that help form a coherent and symmetrical façade with the hipped roof. The quoins to the corners at ground floor level are interesting features and show evidence of fine stone craftsmanship. This building presents quite an unusual squat appearance and the steeply pitched roof with the chimneystack aligned parallel to the roof ridge and proportions suggest that it may be one of the older buildings along Main Street, Edgeworthstown. It prominent location adjacent to the former market house (13309025) and its proximity to Edgeworthstown House (13309027) hints that it was originally built for a purpose other than as a private house. It represents an integral element of the built heritage of Edgeworthstown.