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Terraced five-bay two-storey house, c.1800, retaining early fenestration with segmental-headed integral carriageway to right ground floor. Reroofed, c.1990. Gable-ended roof. Replacement artificial slate, c.1990. Concrete ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. 2/2 timber sash windows (in bipartite arrangement to ground and first floor flanking entrance). Square-headed door opening. Cut-stone block-and-start surround. Timber panelled door. Overlight. Segmental-headed integral carriageway to right ground floor. No fittings. Road fronted. Concrete footpath to front.

This house is a fine, substantial residence of a graceful balanced proportions and traditional detailing, for example the block-and-start surround to the door opening. The house is of social and historic interest as part of a group of late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century terraced houses that form the core of the earliest part of Rathangan. Well-maintained, the house retains its original form and most of its early fabric and materials, including timber sash windows with some arranged in a bipartite fashion. The house is an integral component of the streetscape of Leinster Street, distinguished by the presence of an integral carriageway, and continues the established streetline of the terrace while contributing to the undulating roofline of the north-west end of the street.