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Terraced two- or four-bay two-storey house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Renovated, ----, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hopper and downpipe. Replacement rendered wall to front (south) elevation with rusticated rendered quoins to end. Square-headed window openings in shallow camber-headed recesses (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing four-over-four timber sash windows without horns having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including (first floor): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

A house representing an important component of the early eighteenth-century built heritage of Gorey with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the slender profile of the openings; and the high pitched roofline. Although much modified at street level in the later twentieth century, the elementary form and massing survive intact overhead together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including crown or cylinder glazing panels in hornless sash frames, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing, if largely inconspicuous visual statement in Main Street. NOTE: Occupied (1901; 1911) by Hannah Ebbs (1820-1910), 'Jeweller [and] Watchmaker' (NA 1901); and Hannah Mary Ebbs (1861-1929), 'Jeweller' (NA 1911).