Ernest Speer — Lower Main Street

Attached three-bay two-storey house with attic level, built c. 1877, having traditional timber shopfront to east elevation and extensions to the rear (west), c. 1900. Pitched natural slate to east pitch and artificial slate to west pitch having blue black roll clay ridge tiles, cement rendered chimneystacks to gable ends (north and south) with stepped capping over, projecting rendered eaves course to the front (east) supported on moulded brackets, moulded render stringcourse to base of brackets, and with cast-iron gutters and replacement downpipes to east side. Ruled-and-lined smooth rendered wall to east side, cement rendered walls to south and north elevations, and exposed rubble stone construction to west elevation. Square-headed window openings at first floor level to east side having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and moulded rendered architrave surrounds. Square-headed window openings to the rear (west) and to the side elevations at attic level having replacement windows; flush red brick block-and-start surrounds to window openings to the rear. Central recessed square-headed doorway to shopfront with timber panelled door having timber panelled double-doors with glazed upper panels having moulded scallop motifs to corners, fluted lintel over, overlight with moulded scallop motifs to corners, and with tiled threshold having alternating black and white diamond panes and inset lettering reading ‘Magee Bros’. Doorway flanked to either side by fixed-pane timber display windows having moulded rounded timber pilasters at corners flanking recessed doorway, and with plain stallrisers. Timber shopfront comprising fluted timber pilasters to either end (north and south) with raised and fielded panels to plinths and moulded scrolled console brackets over with acanthus leaf motifs and decorative rounded-headed caps, and with timber fascia over with painted shop name and with pronounced moulded cornice over. Tongue-and-groove timber ceilings to interior, exposed decorative timber trusses, timber counters, carved timber mouldings above shelving, and tongue-and-grooved timber boarding to walls. Road-fronted to the south side of the centre of Letterkenny.