Survey Data
Reg No
15310189
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
243784, 253074
Date Recorded
01/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced seven-bay three-storey house/commercial building, built c.1850, having a modern replica shopfront to the ground floor. Forms part of a formal terrace with the buildings to the east side (15310187 and 15310188). Formerly three separate buildings, now combined at ground floor level. Pitched natural slate roof with a modern rendered chimneystack to the west end, a projecting eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls to the upper floors having square-headed window openings with cut stone sills, timber sliding sash windows of various types, moulded architraves to second floor openings and moulded architraves with moulded cornices and ornamental friezes over the first floor openings. Window openings diminish in height at second floor level. Road-fronted to the north side of Pearse in the centre of Mullingar Town.
Appraisal
A substantial mid nineteenth-century building, which retains much of its early character and form. This building was originally built as three separate units, now combined and in single ownership. This simple building retains its mid nineteenth-century integrity and fabric at first and second floor level, with the moulded architraves, cornices and decorative friezes elevating this building above many of its contemporaries in Mullingar. This typical urban terraced building forms part of an important terrace of buildings along with the buildings to the east (15310187 and 15310188), which together dominate a large section of the north side of Pearse Street, adding a decorative element to the streetscape. This building makes a positive contribution to the streetscape and is an addition to the built heritage of the town despite the large-scale alterations to the ground floor to accommodate a single shop unit.