John McHale

Attached two-bay two-storey house, extant 1917, originally detached[?] with shopfront to ground floor. Renovated, 2005. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in rendered chimney stacks having "Cavetto" stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves. Rendered walls on rendered plinth. Rendered shopfront to ground floor. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with concealed sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-three timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A house representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of Castlebar. Having been 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 Lower Chapel Street at street level: the recent (2005) introduction of replacement fittings to the openings, however, has not had a beneficial impact on the external expression or integrity of the composition.