Survey Data
Reg No
31811037
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Technical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1810 - 1850
Coordinates
193210, 280666
Date Recorded
05/08/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Terrace of three two- and three-bay two-storey houses, built c.1830 with shop and pub to ground floors, return and outbuildings to rear. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined render to ground floors with plinth, quoins and string course, roughcast render to first floors with stucco detailing to ends and to eaves. Rendered shopfront to centre building with timber double doors and traceried overlight flanked by ribbon render detailing and display windows and rendered fascia with cornice. Segmental-headed door opening to southern house with timber panelled and glazed door, sidelights, overlight and stucco surround. Timber battened double doors to northern building. Timber sash windows to ground floor and replacement timber windows to first floor, with stone sills and stucco surrounds and wrought-iron window guard to ground floor window of northern house. Outbuildings to rear of site with pitched corrugated-iron roofs and random rubble walls. Wrought-iron gate leading to rear site from south.
Appraisal
This terrace of houses contributes to the architectural heritage of Strokestown. The modest scale and design is typical of nineteenth-century Irish architecture. The combination of a shop, pub and petrol pumps is a feature which has been lost in many towns although once prevalent throughout Ireland. The retention of the well-executed shopfront with original external and internal fittings heightens its importance. Keeping such features as the overlight to the shop door and the simple yet attractive wrought-iron window guard to the shopfront, with its character and charm, makes a positive contribution to Bridge Street.