O'Brien

Terraced eight-bay three-storey house, c.1825, possibly originally three separate two-bay three-storey (south) and four-bay three-storey (north) houses with square-headed carriageway to left ground floor. Renovated, c.1925, with shopfronts inserted to ground floor. Extensively renovated. Pitched roof with replacement slate, clay ridge tiles, rendered and red brick Running bond chimney stacks, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered quoins to ends. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, moulded rendered surround to ground floor having keystone, and replacement uPVC casement windows retaining one-over-one timber sash window to ground floor. Square-headed door opening with cut-limestone step, moulded rendered surround having keystone, and timber panelled door having overlight. Shopfronts, c.1925, to ground floor with decorative foliate-detailed pilasters on panelled plinths, fixed-pane (single and two-light) timber display windows, glazed timber doors having overlights, fascias having raised lettering, and dentilated moulded cornices. Square-headed carriageway to left ground floor with replacement steel gate. Interior with timber panelled reveals/shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A substantial house occupying a large site suggesting the possibility that the present building comprises the amalgamation of three separate ranges. Despite substantial renovations works over the course of the twentieth century some of the historic character of the site remains discernible: although the inappropriate replacement fittings to most of the openings have not had a beneficial impact on the external expression of the composition two early twentieth-century shopfronts of considerable artistic design distinction significantly enhance the aesthetic value of the site at street level.