Jim McLoughlin

Terraced single-bay three-storey house, extant 1838, with shopfront to ground floor. Renovated. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with ridge tiles terminating in rendered chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Timber shopfront to ground floor. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

A house representing an integral component of the built heritage of Westport with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been reasonably well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric including a traditional Irish shopfront of artistic interest making a pleasing visual statement in Bridge Street at street level: the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings, however, has not had a beneficial impact on the external expression or integrity of the composition.