Survey Data
Reg No
40808009
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Shop/retail outlet
Historical Use
Worker's house
In Use As
House
Date
1880 - 1900
Coordinates
213113, 436632
Date Recorded
29/09/2010
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace attached two-bay single-storey house and former shop with dormer attic level, built c. 1890, having shopfront, two gable-fronted dormer windows to the front elevation (north-west) and with later single-storey extension to the rear (south-east). One of a pair of structures with building adjoining to the north-east (see 40808010). Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves having exposed rafter ends, terracotta ridge tiles, raised smooth rendered coping to the south-west gable end having rendered kneeler stone detailing at eaves level, two yellow brick chimneystacks with rendered cornice coping over, and with some surviving cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Decorative curvilinear timber bargeboards to dormer openings, decorative timber fretwork to gable apex of dormer opening to the north-east. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings to dormers having paired one-over-one timber sliding sash windows with central timber mullion to opening to the north-east end and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window with margin glazing bars to opening to the south-west. Square-headed window openings to shopfront having fixed-pane display windows with decorative metal grilles over. Central square-headed doorway to shopfront having glazed timber door with plain overlight. Shopfront comprising render or timber pilasters with fluted console brackets over surmounted by pedimented finials to either end, and with moulded render fascia over openings having cornice above. Set slightly back from road with pathway and forecourt to the front (north-west). Located to the south-west end of Carraig Art [Carrickart] with laneway adjacent to the south-west having access to rear.
Appraisal
This charming house and former shop, dating to the last decades of the nineteenth century, retains its early form and character. Its visual expression and integrity is enhanced by the retention of salient fabric such as the timber sliding sash windows to the dormers, natural slate roof, and the shopfront. Decorative interest is added by the detailing to the dormer openings and the well-detailed shopfront. This building is one of the best surviving structures in Carraig Art [Carrickart] dating to the period when the town was redeveloped by the Fourth Earl of Leitrim of nearby Mulroy House (see 40901712) in the 1880s, a process continued by his widow and estate successor following his death in 1892. These structures were built to a common style with single-storey with dormer attic level front elevations and uniform two-storey structures. Many still survive but having been altered and changed incrementally over time eroding their integrity. Of particular interest is the survival of the attractive shopfront. This is based on a simplification of the classical formula of pilasters supporting entablature over with the frieze adding as the fascia for the shop\proprietor's name, a feature of many traditional Irish shopfronts. Traditional shopfronts of this type are a fast disappearing feature of the streetscapes of Irish towns and villages, making this example in Carraig Art [Carrickart] and increasingly rare survival of its type. The metal ventilation grilles over the fixed-pane display windows to the shopfront suggests that it may have been originally\formerly a butcher's shop, as these are a feature of such premises. This building forms a pair of related structures with its neighbour (see 40808010) to the north-east, acting as an historical reminder of the redevelopment of the town by the Clement family\Earls of Leitrim, and is an integral element of the built heritage of Carraig Art [Carrickart].