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Terraced three-bay two-storey house, extant 1904, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor; two-bay two-storey rear (west) elevation. Now disused. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (east) elevation; part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered wall to rear (west) elevation. Shopfront to ground floor on a symmetrical plan centred on cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (west) elevation with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-three timber sash windows having exposed sash boxes. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A house representing an important component of the built heritage of Gorey with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including a symmetrically-composed traditional Irish shopfront showing a restrained doorcase regarded as an increasingly endangered hallmark of Gorey (cf. 15601043; 15601082).