M. Barry, house in County Galway

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End-of-terrace four-bay three-storey house, built c.1820, with shopfronts to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and moulded limestone eaves course. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having replacement uPVC windows, and painted stone sills. Round-headed door opening with painted stone Gibbsian surround, limestone steps and timber panelled door with spoked fanlight. Shopfront to south comprising square-headed metal-framed display window, and recessed door opening with glazed timber door having overlight. Timber shopfront to north comprises timber fascia with raised lettering and carved cornice, over carved pilasters flanking timber nameplate and square-headed opening timber battened double-leaf door with paned overlight, flanked by boarded-up display windows with render sills and stall risers.

This building forms part of a coherent terrace which are similarly-sized and formed structures, which in their prominent site form an important part of the streetscape. It retains a well carved limestone doorcase, the central door indicating the dual residential and commercial function of such an urban building.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30341038

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