Survey Data
Reg No
15310105
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
243742, 253038
Date Recorded
01/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1800, with a box oriel window to the first floor having a moulded timber cornice over, added c.1900. Now in use as a retail outlet with a simple modern shopfront to the ground floor. Low pitched natural slate roof, shared with neighbour to the east (15310106). Shared cast-iron gutter to the west end. Rendered walls with square-headed window openings having replacement timber casement windows to the second floor. Timber casements to the oriel window, divided by timber transoms and mullions and having diminishing pane sizes to head. Modern shopfront to the ground floor comprising a central square-headed doorway flanked to either side by square-headed fixed-pane windows. Road-fronted on the south side of Pearse Street.
Appraisal
A pleasing small-scale house, which is enlivened by the addition of an oriel window to the first floor. The scale of the house suggests that this building is of eighteenth century date, however, the sharp arrises and low pitch of the roof suggest an early nineteenth-century date, perhaps c.1810. Appears to have been built at the same time as adjoining building to the east (15310106). This structure makes a positive contribution to the centre of Mullingar with the oriel window adding incident to Pearse Street.