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Corner-sited attached three-bay three-storey house, built c. 1820, with render shopfront to ground floor, and having five-bay two-storey extension to rear, latter having gablet over two end bays. Pitched artificial slate roof having rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative brackets, and render copings to gables. Painted rendered walls having painted render quoins, with inset marble plaque to extension. Rendered wheel guard to corner. Square-headed window openings having replacement uPVC windows, and painted sills. Shopfront has fluted pilasters withplinths and moulded capitals, moulded render courses to fascia, and dentillated moulded render cornice. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled double-leaf door, flanked by plate glass display windows. Display windows also inserted to east gable and to extension. Limestone crosses at foot of wall at site of killing of Land League patriots in 1887.
This house and shop is notable for its render shopfront, which displays fluted pilasters and other classic shopfront details. Its prominent location on the corner of New Market Square and Upper Cork Street affords this building considerable townscape significance.

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