Survey Data
Reg No
30410822
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Meelick Post Office
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Post office
In Use As
House
Date
1760 - 1800
Coordinates
194199, 213715
Date Recorded
20/10/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached two-storey house, built c.1780, comprising two blocks, two-bay to north-west having timber shopfront with lower two-storey return to rear (south-west) elevation, and with slightly lower three-bay block to south-east. Formerly in use as post office, now also in use as shop. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted sills, having timber casement windows to first floor of south-east block, and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to all other front elevation openings, all with painted reveals and sills. Square-headed replacement timber door to lower block. Shopfront comprises timber pilasters flanking timber panelled door and plate-glass display window, with moulded cornice, door having geometrically glazed overlight. Entrance to yard to south-east comprises wrought-iron double-leaf gate with rubble stone piers. Rendered boundary wall to north-west.
Appraisal
The simple forms of the blocks combine pleasingly as a group, adding interest to the roadscape. The retention of early slate roofs, timber windows and the roughcast render all combine to add textural interest to the building. The simple shopfront adds interest to the façade. The former function as a post office is of social interest, and its continued use as a shop is notable, given the rural location.