house

End-of-terrace four-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, incorporating early shopfronts to either end (east and west). Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rain water goods. Smooth rendered walls to ground floor with pebble dash above, separated by rendered string course. Rendered plinth to base. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and cut stone sills. Square-headed doorcases with overlight to both shopfronts, early timber panelled door to east and double-leaf timber door with glazed panels to western shopfront. Western shopfront has timber fascia with moulded cornice supported on moulded timber pilasters with fixed-pane timber display window and casement window above. Simple shopfront to east with multi-paned timber casement window with simple render surround. Road fronted with outbuildings to rear.

A well-composed and well-maintained building, originally built as two separate structures. It retains its original form and character, as well as most of its original fabric. The building is distinguished by the modest traditional shopfront to the west which enhances the visual appeal of the overall composition, and which is of artistic interest in its own right. The house remains an integral component of the streetscape of Clonmellon, occupying a prominent site in the centre of the village next to the former market place.