house

End-of-terrace four-bay two-storey over basement house, built 1712. Rectangular-plan. Pitched artificial slate roof, clay ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks with clay pots, stone verge coping to west gable, moulded cast-iron gutter on corbelled eaves course, circular cast-iron downpipe. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling to north and west elevations, roughcast render to south elevation. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted smooth render reveals and soffits, painted timber inward-opening casement windows to basement, protective wrought-iron rail; painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows to ground floor, three-over-three sliding sash windows to first floor. Square-headed door opening, painted smooth rendered reveals and soffit, painted timber door with six raised-and-fielded panels, intersecting traceried overlight, door accessed by rendered step, wrought-iron boot scraper; square-headed door opening, painted timber vertically-sheeted door within wall bounding rear site to south-west. House fronts onto courtyard.

This house is part of a complex of almost identical houses that was built in the mid-eighteenth century, for widows of clergymen, by the Church of Ireland. The sixteen houses that were built form an attractive grouping of structures that are of the utmost importance within the built heritage of Drogheda. Having been virtually unchanged over the years, the houses, which are situated to the east of the Church of Ireland church, form not only a socially important grouping but also an architecturally significant complex.