Fitzgerald House

Terraced three-bay three-storey house with dormer attic, c.1750, incorporating fabric of earlier house, 1638, on site. Extensively renovated, c.1900. Renovated, c.1975, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor incorporating fabric of earlier shopfront, c.1900. Renovated. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack, rooflight, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with cut-stone date stone to first floor having chamfered surround. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds having consoles to first floor supporting entablatures, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1900, having replacement uPVC casement windows to rear (south) elevation. Replacement timber shopfront, c.1975, to ground floor incorporating fabric of earlier shopfront, c.1900, with pilasters, fixed-pane (two-light) timber window, glazed timber panelled door, timber panelled door to house having overlight, replacement fascia over having console, and 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 displaying good craftsmanship enliven the external design aesthetic 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.