house

Terraced two-bay three-storey house, c.1800, probably incorporating fabric of earlier range, c.1600, on site. Renovated and part refenestrated, c.1950, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and six-over-six (top floor) timber sash windows having replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1950, to first floor. Timber shopfront, c.1950, to ground floor with fixed-pane (two-light) timber display window, timber panelled door on two cut-limestone steps, and fascia over having cornice. Interior with timber panelled reveals/shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A well-appointed substantial house built as one of a group of three identical houses (with 12000020, 22/KK-4766-09-20, 22) incorporating Classically-derived proportions with the openings diminishing in scale on each floor, thereby producing a tiered visual effect lending a formal quality to the streetscape. Having been reasonably well maintained the original composition attributes survive substantially intact together with much of the historic fabric both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby maintaining the integrity of the group together with the positive contribution made to the visual appeal of Parliament Street. A simple mid twentieth-century shopfront of some artistic design merit displaying good quality craftsmanship further enlivens the external expression of the site in the street scene. Reputedly incorporating the fabric of a late sixteenth- or early seventeenth-century range on site the house potentially represents an important element of the archaeological legacy of Kilkenny City.