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Boylan

House, shop/retail outlet

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Boylan in Ballybay is only one window wide but rises three storeys above its shop. It's a building told there was no room left on the street and replying, 'Grand. I'll stand on myself.'
Terraced single-bay three-storey house-over-shop, built c.1850, with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched natural slate roof with smooth rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth lined and ruled rendered walling, with render block-and-start quoins to south end. Square-headed window openings with moulded render architraves with chamfered edges, with replacement uPVC windows, and painted sills. Square-headed recessed door opening with overlight and double-leaf timber and glass-panelled door, with encaustic polychromatic mosaic tiled threshold. Shopfront comprises fixed timber-framed display window, timber fascia with applied wooden lettering and with moulded string course below and cornice over, with panelled pilaster to south end.
This is a modest building, standing at the centre of Ballybay, is a good example of the street-fronted dwelling-over-shop architecture associated with the Irish small town. It is distinguished by its one-bay form and the simple but well detailed shopfront.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41307022

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  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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  • D Gore, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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