J.J. Gavan

Terraced single-bay three-storey house with dormer attic, extant 1838, with shopfront to ground floor. Reroofed. One of a pair. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in cement rendered chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, central rooflight to rear (south) pitch, and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hopper and downpipe. Rendered wall (ground floor); roughcast surface finish (upper floors) with rendered "bas-relief" strips to ends supporting rendered band to eaves. Rendered shopfront to ground floor. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-limestone sills[?], and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front having cut-limestone kerbing.

A house erected as one of a pair representing an integral component of the built heritage of Westport with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such traits as the compact near-square plan form; and the 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 of artistic interest making a pleasing visual statement in Mill Street at street level.