Survey Data
Reg No
15009263
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1770 - 1800
Coordinates
204024, 241444
Date Recorded
08/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1785. One of a pair with building to the south. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course and a shared roughcast rendered chimneystack to south end. Cement rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills and replacement windows. Round-headed doorcase to south end with limestone block-and-start surround, replacement glazed timber panelled door and spoked fanlight over. Road-fronted.
Appraisal
A substantial terraced house which retains its early form and character. The fine doorcase is a noteworthy feature of artistic merit. This attractive terrace was constructed in the late eighteenth-century, a period of relative economic prosperity in Ireland, and probably originally housed a local merchant family. This building remains an important component of the historic streetscape of Athlone.