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D. Coughlan

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Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, with integral carriage arch and shopfront to ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof with shared rendered chimneystack and uPVC rainwater goods. Painted smooth rendered walls. Square-headed openings with one-over-one timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Carved timber shopfront comprising paired pilasters with capitals supporting architrave, frieze, dentillated cornice and fascia board with raised lettering. Square-headed openings with elliptical-headed arcade of fixed timber framed display windows over rubble stone stall risers, flanking square-headed door opening with elliptical-headed overlight and double-leaf timber panelled doors. Square-headed carriage arch to west.
This pleasing building retains many fine features including timber sash windows and a skilfully executed shopfront. The overall coherence and symmetry of the shopfront design is particularly noteworthy, as is the arcade motif which can be seen elsewhere in the town. The survival of raised timber lettering is interesting, the practice of associating a family name with its commercial premises is a feature which is becoming increasingly rare in contemporary townscapes. The scale and composition of this facade contributes greatly to the streetscape of the town.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20832019

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Dr Brian Lynch, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Andrew Wood, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Garry Dickinson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kondephy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Richard Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Podstawko, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
  • D.Camier, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Vadim Manuylov, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

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