Survey Data
Reg No
12506052
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
246685, 198329
Date Recorded
29/08/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced four-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1820, with integral carriage arch to east. Pitched natural slate roof, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystack to east and further rendered stack to west having moulded cornice and shared with neighbouring house, both having clay pots. Plastic gutter on timber eaves. Painted ruled and lined rendered walling, projecting smooth rendered plinth course and rendered soldier quoins to either end. Square-headed window openings and painted limestone sills. uPVC windows to both floors. Round-headed door opening, moulded architrave surround on limestone plinth blocks with lion's head keystone , replacement timber panelled door and timber spoked fanlight over. Depressed arched carriage opening to east bay with replacement vertically-sheeted timber doors .
Appraisal
This substantial and well-proportioned townhouse has lost its original windows and doors but has retained other historic elements such as its moulded architrave and fanlight, details characteristic of this period in provincial Irish towns. The building is an integral part of this important early nineteenth-century terrace adjoining St. Peter's Church and enhances the architectural landscape of Portlaoise.