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Terraced three-bay two-storey house with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan with projecting shopfront to right ground floor. Reroofed, ----. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stepped capping, and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Fine roughcast walls. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by two steps with moulded surround framing glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Segmental-headed carriageway to left ground floor with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Projecting shopfront to right ground floor on a symmetrical plan centred on timber panelled double doors having fanlight-detailed overlight. Square-headed window openings (upper floors west) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (upper floors east) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having one-over-one sidelights. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

A house representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Taghmon with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a Classically-detailed doorcase; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression with the principal "apartments" defined by tripartite glazing patterns; and the high pitched roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained group alongside adjoining houses (see 15615005; 15615007) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in Main Street.