West Gate House — West Street

Corner-sited attached three-bay three-storey former house, built c. 1790, with shopfront inserted to ground floor and now used as guest house. Single-storey pitched roof return to south. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, smooth rendered chimneystacks, gutter hidden by parapet, circular cast-iron downpipes. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling, painted smooth rendered channelled quoins, corniced parapet and ground floor. Square-headed window openings, painted reveals, painted stone sills, painted timber one-over-one sliding sash windows. Painted shopfront comprising painted smooth rendered stall-riser surmounted by large display window flanked by painted fluted pilasters; three square-headed door openings, painted timber double doors with six flat panels flanked by fluted pilasters accessing shopfront, painted timber vertically-sheeted door accessing rear yard, painted timber door with four flat panels, plain-glazed overlight accessing accommodation above, both flanked by fluted pilasters; pilasters support painted fascia, painted smooth rendered cornice. Range of pitched slate roofed outbuildings to rear (south). Attached at east to single-storey building of later date. Located at busy intersection near main bridge to enter Drogheda.