Survey Data
Reg No
30805013
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Market house
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1830 - 1835
Coordinates
188609, 339485
Date Recorded
11/07/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey gable-fronted former market house, built in 1834 by Nathaniel Clements, second Earl of Leitrim. Set back from the road and now used as a design centre. Pitched roof with decorative cut stone chimneystack to rear. Ashlar façade with channelled rustication to ground floor and sandstone dressings and quoins. Rendered side and rear elevations. Carved stone coat of arms to tympanum of pediment displaying the motto 'Patriis Virtutibus' (by Ancestral Virtues). Timber sash windows. Entrance doorway to south end of façade. Central integral carriage arch with display window. Entrance door with stucco surround remains on façade from previous hardware store. Building flanked by tooled sandstone carriage arches with cast-iron gates leading to rear of site containing a number of outbuildings.
Appraisal
The former market house, built by the renowned Nathaniel Clements, is a landmark building in Manorhamilton and indeed County Leitrim. It has retained much of its original fabric and form. With the meticulous detailing of cut stone elevations and a carved stone plaque, this structure in not only historically important, but architecturally significant.