Survey Data
Reg No
40000306
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
Date
1885 - 1890
Coordinates
242053, 305125
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 southern bay. Pitched slate roof, rendered chimneystacks with decorative pots at centre and at southern party wall, and replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast render walls with raised block-and-start quoins and plinth, square-headed window openings, wider at the ground floor, with painted sills and two-over-two timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door opening with single-pane fanlight and replacement panelled door. Segmental-arched carriageway with sheeted timber double-leaf doors incorporating a wicket door. Opens directly onto street.
Appraisal
A modest late nineteenth-century house which retains its historic form and character as well as many historic features. The building forms a pair with its neighbour to the south, which alongside the uniform terrace to the north, characterise the modest streetscape of Church Street. This restrained ensemble of buildings forms a strong contrast to the grander civic, ecclesiastical, and residential architecture of Farnham Street on the other side. This contrast in scale provides insight into the social history and historic urban development of Cavan town.