Survey Data
Reg No
40000305
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1885 - 1890
Coordinates
242051, 305134
Date Recorded
06/06/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced four-bay two-storey house, built 1887 with integral carriage arch to northern bay and three-bay two-storey return to the rear. Pitched artificial slate roof, rendered chimney stacks with decorative pots to south party wall, and replacement rainwater goods. Render removed exposing roughly squared rubble stone walls. Smooth rendered walls to rear elevation and roughcast rendered walls to return. Segmental-arched carriageway with red-brick surround and yellow brick keystone. Red-brick block-and-start window surrounds with cut-stone sills and two-over-two timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed red-brick door surround with single-pane fanlight and replacement panelled door. Opens directly onto street.
Appraisal
A two-storey house forming part of a uniform terrace, typical of the late nineteenth century. Despite removal of the historic render the house retains its original scale, proportions and characteristic windows in red-brick surrounds which serve to unify the terrace, the facade further distinguished by a carriage arch with similar dressings. The building makes an important contribution to the modest streetscape of Church Street, which contrasts with the grander scale of civic, ecclesiastical and larger residential buildings on Farnham Street and provides insight into the historic urban development and social history of Cavan town.