P.J. Goggin

Terraced two-bay three-storey house, c.1825. Extensively renovated, post-1900, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. One of a pair. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond (shared) chimney stack having stringcourse with rendered buttressed chimney stack to rear (west) elevation having capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, post-1900. Replacement shopfront, post-1900, to ground floor on a symmetrical plan with half-panelled (hollow) pilasters on fluted risers on cut-stone padstones, fixed-pane timber display window having corner colonettes supporting spandrels, glazed timber panelled double doors on cut-granite step having overlight, timber panelled door to house having overlight, and fascia having moulded cornice. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

A pleasant house of modest size built as one of an identical pair (second in pair not included in survey) expressing unassuming architectural design aspirations, thereby making an understated visual impression in South Street. Having been well maintained, the house presents an early aspect with the elementary composition attributes surviving in place together with most of the historic fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior including a traditional Irish shopfront of artistic interest displaying good quality craftsmanship making a beneficial contribution to the streetscape aesthetic at street level.