House in Blackabbey, County Limerick

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Attached two-bay two-storey shop, built c. 1820, formerly in use as house, with render shopfront to ground floor front (south) elevation. Hipped and pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed openings to first floor with decorative render surrounds and replacement windows. Shopfront to ground floor comprising decorative render pilasters flanking openings, decorative console brackets, fascia and cornice. Square-headed openings with timber windows and glazed timber door. Square-headed door opening to west flanked by pilasters and having decorative consoles and cornice above and timber panelled door.

The highly decorative shopfront adds artistic interest and decorative appeal to this prominently corner-sited former house. The façade is further enhanced by the render window surrounds, which emphasise the unusually spaced windows. The whole creates a pleasing feature along the street.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21824037

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