house

Terraced two-bay three-storey house, rebuilt 1902[?]; extant 1923, with shopfront to ground floor. Reroofed. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with ridge tiles terminating in rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on eaves boards on rendered cut-limestone eaves retaining abbreviated cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered piers to ends. Rendered shopfront to ground floor. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A house representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of Ballinrobe with the architectural value of the composition, one potentially retaining the basis of a house photographed (1880) by Thomas J. Wynne (1838-93) of Castlebar, suggested by such traits as the compact near-square plan form; and the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original or sympathetically replicated fabric including a shopfront of artistic interest making a pleasing visual statement in Main Street at street level.