Fitzgerald House

Terraced three-bay three-storey house, c.1750, incorporating fabric of earlier house, 1638, on site. Extensively renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Reroofed. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with panel to centre upper floors having moulded rendered surround. Square-headed window openings (in camber-headed recesses to first floor) with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds having consoles to first floor supporting entablatures, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1900. Timber shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane (two-light) timber window, glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight, and fascia over having moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

A well-composed middle-size house incorporating the fabric of an earlier mid seventeenth-century range on site having connections with the Fitzgerald-Shee family, therefore representing an important element of the archaeological heritage of the locality. Elegant rendered dressings in the Classical manner together with an appealing later shopfront of artistic design significance displaying good craftsmanship enliven the external expression of the house. Retaining the original composition qualities together with much of the early fabric the house makes a pleasing impression in an historic streetscape.