Keane's, house in County Galway

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Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1820, with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and moulded limestone eaves course. Pebbledashed walls. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed doorway to house with render cornice surmounted on brackets, having replacement timber panelled door, paned overlight, and cut limestone steps. Shopfront comprising full-width moulded render cornice and nameplate with raised lettering, and with one fluted timber pilaster to south end having console. Square-headed opening with timber display windows flanking recessed square-headed door opening with glazed timber double-leaf door with overlight.

The ground floor of this building retains a notable shopfront. The raised lettering is well executed and the lettering to the windows indicates that this premises was a typical pub/shop establishment, now increasingly rare. The tall chimneystacks are a notable addition to the roofline of Bridge Street, and the carved stone eaves course is typical of the main streets of Gort.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30341034

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