Survey Data
Reg No
41304028
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1880
Coordinates
250152, 325917
Date Recorded
18/12/2011
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace five-bay three-storey house with attic and ground floor shop, built c.1860, having two-bay two-storey lean-to extension to rear elevation. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof having black clay ridge tiles, replacement rooflights on south side of rear elevation and smooth cement-rendered chimneystacks on ridge just north of centre and on north gable. Replacement metal rainwater goods on smooth-rendered eaves course. Smooth cement rendered walls throughout, with front having smooth rendered upper floors with single tie-plate between floors, channelled render to ground floor, and block-and-start render quoins. Fillet-moulded sill course to first floor. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills, having replacement uPVC frames to front and replacement timber to rear. Symmetrical timber shopfront to two middle bays has moulded timber pilasters flanking doorway and display windows, with scrolled consoles and rendered plinths supporting plain fascia, door is double-leaf timber panelled with overlight and moulded lintel, and display windows have chamfered surrounds and timber mullions. Shopfront originally part of symmetrical arrangement with flanking square-headed timber doors of which that to south has been replaced with timber window but that to north retains partially glazed timber panelled door with chamfered detailing and similar moulded framing piers with scrolled consoles supporting small architrave moulding as on adjacent shopfront. Beyond this doorway to north is another window demarcating end bay of this building which terminates with gap providing access to rear.
Appraisal
This traditionally designed building makes a strong impression in the streetscape with its horizontal emphasis. The channelled render ground floor with its pleasant timber shopfront adds interest to this street as it approaches The Diamond which was the focus of commercial and community activity in Clones. The balanced elegance of the whole composition has been well designed to discretely and successfully mould such a relatively long building front on quite a sloped street.