Survey Data
Reg No
31205012
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
Date
1700 - 1838
Coordinates
113809, 317531
Date Recorded
09/12/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to left ground floor. Now disused. One of a pair. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, moss-covered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hopper and downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Timber shopfront to left ground floor. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Street fronted with footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a pair of houses representing an integral component of the built heritage of Crossmolina with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; and the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including a traditional Irish shopfront of artistic interest making a pleasing visual statement in Mullenmore Street at street level.