Survey Data
Reg No
15306009
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Garage
In Use As
Public house
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
265149, 268625
Date Recorded
13/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced four-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, incorporating shopfront (c.1880) and integral carriage arch. Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron gutters. Ruled-and-lined render to walls with raised quoins to corners, projecting rendered eaves course and rendered plinth to base. Square-headed openings with cut stone sills, replacement uPVC windows to first floor and a single one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window to ground floor. Two square-headed door openings to shopfront with timber panelled double-doors and plain overlights above. Timber shopfront with fluted Doric pilasters, fixed-pane timber display windows and timber fascia over with moulded cornice. Road-fronted with disused petrol pub and garage sign to front. Located close to centre of Clonmellon.
Appraisal
A substantial and well-composed commercial building which retains most of its original form and much of its original fabric. The building is distinguished by an intact traditional pubfront/shopfront which is of artistic interest. The dual function of both retail and public house (and later a filling station c. 1950) is very typical of commercial premises in small Irish towns and villages. This building is an important component of the streetscape of Clonmellon and occupies a prominent site towards the centre of the village.