house

Terraced three-bay two-storey over basement house, built 1712. Rectangular-plan. Pitched artificial slate roof, clay ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystack with clay pots, moulded cast-iron gutter on corbelled eaves course. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered reveals and soffits, painted stone sills, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows to ground floor, three-over-three sliding sash windows to first floor, inward-opening timber casements to basement. Square-headed door opening, painted smooth rendered reveals and soffit, painted timber door with six raised-and-filed panels, decorative cast-iron door furniture, intersecting traceried overlight, door accessed by rendered steps. House built as part of a complex, fronting onto courtyard.

This house was built as part of a complex of sixteen houses, by the Church of Ireland, for use by widows of clergymen. Situated to the east of the church, this complex of buildings is highly significant to the architectural heritage of Drogheda and indeed County Louth. The retention of virtually all original features and materials highlights the importance of these structures which form a socially important and architecturally significant group within Drogheda.