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Terraced three-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, c.1780, retaining early fenestration to ground floor. Renovated, c.1920, with timber shopfront inserted to right ground floor. Refenestrated, c.1980, to first floor. Now disused to right ground floor. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Square rooflights. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Roughcast walls. Painted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Early 6/6 timber sash window to ground floor. Replacement timber casement windows, c.1980, to first floor. Replacement timber panelled door, c.1980, with overlight. Timber shopfront, c.1920, to right ground floor with pilasters, fixed-pane display windows and timber panelled double doors having overlight and timber fascia over with consoles and moulded cornice. Road fronted. Tarmacadam footpath to front.

This house is a fine and well-maintained substantial building that is of social and historic interest, representing the early development of Ballitore as a Quaker settlement. Well-maintained, the house retains some important original or early features and materials, including one multi-pane timber sash window to ground floor, together with cast-iron rainwater goods to the slate roof - also retained are subtle items of cast-iron work, including a sill guard to the window opening to ground floor together with a boot scraper to the door opening. Renovated in the early twentieth century to accommodate commercial use to the right ground floor, the timber shopfront is an attractive addition to the composition and represents the true traditional Irish model, composed on a symmetrical plan and without unnecessary ornamentation - the shopfront emphasises the social and historic significance of the house, representing the continued commericalisation of Ballitore in the early twentieth century. Now only in fair condition, the shopfront ought to be preserved in any future renovation works. The house is an integral component of a terrace of late eighteenth century houses and is an attractive feature on the streetscape of the road leading out of Ballitore to the south.