Survey Data
Reg No
15310111
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Shop/retail outlet
In Use As
Public house
Date
1820 - 1850
Coordinates
243794, 253048
Date Recorded
01/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey building with attic level, built c.1835. Now in use as a public house and nightclub. One of a terrace of three buildings with the structures adjacent to the either side (15310110 and 15310112). Pitched natural slate roof to cast-iron rainwater goods and with a shared rendered chimneystack to either end. Gable-fronted dormer opening to the east side of front pitch of the roof. Constructed of coursed squared rubble limestone/calp. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to the second floor and six-over-one pane to the first floor openings. Segmental-headed arch with dressed voussoirs over to the west side of the ground floor incorporating a modern shopfront. Square-headed doorway to the east end of the front façade having a modern door. Road-fronted to the south side of Pearse Street.
Appraisal
A fine early-to-mid nineteenth-century building, which forms an integral part of an important terrace of three related buildings along with the structures to either side (15310110 and 15310112). This building is well constructed using good quality masonry, which is almost ashlar in quality. The dark colour of the masonry suggests that it may be built of calp limestone, probably locally sourced. The wide segmental-headed arch to the ground floor is an interesting and unusual feature that indicates that this building was purpose built to accommodate a shop. This building has a strong presence in the streetscape and is an important element of the architectural heritage of Mullingar.