Survey Data
Reg No
20803002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Public house
In Use As
House
Date
1880 - 1900
Coordinates
154283, 108985
Date Recorded
25/09/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay three-storey house and shop, built c. 1890, also in use as public house. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, clay chimneypots and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with painted render quoins. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, painted moulded render surrounds and painted render sill course. Shopfront to ground floor, having painted timber fascia with painted render lettering and timber framed display window. Square-headed door opening with double-leaf timber panelled door having overlight with half-glazed double-leaf timber panelled door to interior. Limestone step. Interior has shop, with public house to rear, having timber battened counters and walls, timber shelves, timber storage drawers with painted lettering, timber battened walls and timber panelled access door and four-pane timber framed windows to house part.
Appraisal
This fine late nineteenth-century shop has been owned by the same family since it began and the interior has changed little. It is a rare example of a shop and pub, once a common feature of rural Ireland, now increasingly rare. There are many fine original features to the interior, such as the timber counters, drawers and shelving. The shop is an important tangible link between the past and the present.