What is recorded here

Terraced four-bay two-storey former house, built c. 1870, modern shopfront, in use as commercial premises. Pitched artificial slate roof, clay ridge tiles, large rendered chimneystack to west gable, further stack to east gable, both having profiled cornice and clay pots. Replacement metal gutter to rendered eaves carried on series of rendered corbels. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walling with panelled rendered pilaster and console bracket to either end, continuing as a fluted pilaster to first floor with square-panel and dome motif to eaves. Square-headed window openings with kneed architrave surrounds and keystones with a continuous sill course, uPVC windows. Machine cut limestone-clad shopfront with four square-headed door openings. uPVC glazed doors and plastic fascia over an original rendered cornice below first floor sill.

This late nineteenth-century former townhouse is one of the more dominant structures within the streetscape of this section of Main Street. Despite having lost some of its original external features the façade displays stucco embellishments of quality. A key component in the urban fabric of the historic town core, this building contributes to the architectural landscape of Portlaoise.

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