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Terraced three-bay two-storey over basement house with attic, built 1712. L-plan, three-bay two-storey over basement block to south-east with central bowed bay. Pitched artificial slate roof, clay ridge tiles, some ridge cresting, red brick chimneystacks, moulded cast-iron gutters on corbelled eaves course, uPVC downpipe. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered reveals and soffits, painted stone sills, inward-opening timber and metal casement windows to basement, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows to ground floor, three-over-three sliding sash windows to first floor of north range, six-over three sliding sash windows to east range, curving sliding sashes to bow. Square-headed door opening, painted smooth rendered reveals and soffit, painted timber door with six raised-and-fielded panels, intersecting traceried overlight, limestone steps access entrance. House built as part of a complex, fronting onto courtyard.

This house was built as part of a complex of sixteen houses, by the Church of Ireland, for use by widows of clergymen. The houses were designed and carefully planned and have changed little over the passing years. This structure with its central bow to the eastern range terminates the vista between the two terraces to the north and south. The complex, which is situated to the east of the Church of Ireland, is both socially important and architecturally significant, plays an important role in the built heritage of Drogheda and County Louth.