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Terraced three-bay two-storey double-pile house, c.1820, with round-headed door opening to left ground floor. Reroofed and renovated, c.1980, with openings remodelled to right ground floor to accommodate commercial use. Gable-ended double-pile (M-profile) roof (shared) behind parapet wall. Replacement fibre-cement slate, c.1980. Concrete ridge tiles. Roughcast and rendered chimney stacks. Rendered coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered wall to ground floor (possibly replacement). Painted. Roughcast walls to remainder. Painted. Rendered dressings including strips to ends and parapet wall having cut-stone coping. Square-headed window openings to first floor. Stone sills. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1990. Round-headed door opening to left ground floor. Timber panelled door. Spoked fanlight. Openings remodelled, c.1980, to right ground floor with fixed-pane timber display window and glazed timber door having timber panelled fascia over. Road fronted. Concrete footpath to front.

This house, built as one of a pair with the house immediately to left (west; 11804025/KD-11-04-25), is an attractive building composed of graceful Georgian proportions. The house is of social and historical interest, representing the continued development and expansion of Leixlip in the early nineteenth century. Renovated in the late twentieth century to accommodate a commercial use, the remodelled openings to ground floor detract considerably from the original harmony of the composition, while the replacement fenestration to the remainder is not an attractive feature of the building. Future renovation works might aim to formalise the commercial area to ground floor through the insertion of a true traditional Irish timber shopfront, without extraneous detailing or ornamentation, while the re-instatement of timber fenestration would also be of benefit. The house, together with the second in the pair, is an attractive feature on the streetscape of Main Street and contributes to regular quality of the roofline in the historic core of Leixlip.