Survey Data
Reg No
41303183
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Convent/nunnery
In Use As
Office
Date
1830 - 1850
Coordinates
267101, 333774
Date Recorded
22/05/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-bay house, built c.1840, and one of row of four similar houses. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks. Roughly coursed rubble limestone walling with squared quoins, having chamfer to ground floor of south-west corner facilitating carriage arch of building to west, and with recently replaced red brick dressings to openings. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and timber door, latter having dressed limestone plinth-blocks. Plaque to front elevation reads 'This house was the first residence of the Sisters of St Louis in Ireland 1859'.
Appraisal
One of a terrace of four similar tall houses on Mill Street, this one was the first residence of the Sisters of Saint Louis, an institution that has had a major impact on the town for a century and a half. The building displays pleasing mottled limestone, and its openings, together with those of its neighbours to the east, create a strong horizontal rhythm in the streetscape.