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Terraced single-bay three-storey house, extant 1838. Adapted to alternative use, 1891. Renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. One of a pair. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered red brick header bond eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Replacement rendered wall to front (west) elevation with rendered "bas-relief" strip to end. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds over concealed red brick block-and-start construction centred on keystones framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including (upper floors): timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A house erected as one of a pair (including 31215032) representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century built heritage of Ballinrobe with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such traits as the compact plan form; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Although recently the subject of a comprehensive renovation programme, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby upholding much of the character of a house forming part of a neat self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in Main Street.