house — Irish Street

Attached four-bay three-storey house, c.1875, on an L-shaped plan on a corner site probably incorporating fabric of two two-bay three-storey houses, pre-1840, on site with shopfront to ground floor, and single-bay three-storey side (north) elevation continuing into two-bay three-storey return to east. Now in use as outbuilding. Pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan forming hip to corner with clay ridge tiles, no chimney stack(s), rendered coping, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having paired iron ties. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with cast-iron tie plates to upper floors (most concealed), cast-iron plaque to first floor, and roughcast walls to rear (east) elevations. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills (now boarded-up). Shopfront to ground floor with panelled (hollow) pilasters, timber boarded shutters to display windows, timber panelled double doors on cut-granite thresholds having overlights, remains of iron hanging display bar, and fascia on stringcourse having moulded cornice. Round-headed door opening to side (north) elevation with flight of three steps having remains of iron railings, cut-granite step supporting cut-granite padstones, and timber panelled door having overlight. Street fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front.