Survey Data
Reg No
13823053
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Ardee Methodist Church
Original Use
Church/chapel
In Use As
Surgery/clinic
Date
1850 - 1855
Coordinates
296154, 290735
Date Recorded
05/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding three-bay gable-fronted single-storey former Methodist church, built 1852, now in use as kennels, attached to south to single-storey shop building. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, plain stone verges, uPVC gutters on painted timber fascias on stone eaves corbel course. Squared-and-snecked sandstone walling to west elevation, ashlar limestone quoins and dressings, date stone; uncoursed rubble stone walling to north and south elevations. Paired square-headed window openings to west gable, chamfered tooled ashlar limestone jambs, corbelled lintels, flush sills, diamond-paned leaded lights; square-headed window openings to north and south elevations, smooth rendered reveals, stone sills, painted timber casement windows. Square-headed deeply recessed door opening to north elevation. Set back from Market Street, mild steel railings on unpainted smooth rendered plinth wall to west (street) boundary, Saint Mary's Church of Ireland church to north.
Appraisal
This former Methodist church, retains its essential form as a simple, unpretentious, structure typical of the type. The masonry work around the west window and leaded lights are of good quality. The building contributes to the variety and interest of Ardee's historic streetscape.