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Terraced two-bay three-storey house, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack (west) having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (south) elevation. Timber shopfront to ground floor. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (upper floors): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

A house representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of Bunclody with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form; and the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. 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, including a traditional Irish shopfront: meanwhile, contemporary joinery; and sleek plasterwork refinements, all highlight the artistic potential of a house making a pleasing visual statement in The Mall or Main Street. NOTE: Operated (1901; 1911) alongside an adjoining property (see 15602066) as "Lawler's Hotel" by Anne Lawler (d. 1911), 'Shopkeeper late of Main Street Newtownbarry [Bunclody] County Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1911, 327).