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Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, with extension to rear. Fronting directly onto street. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lean-to roof to extension. Pebbledashed walls. Timber sliding sash windows with stone sills. Timber casement windows to rear extension. Segmental-headed door opening with fanlight and timber panelled door.

Though modest in design and small in stature, this house forms one of a group of similar structures. The house, like its neighbours, is enhanced by the retention of its timber sash windows and early materials, such as its slate roof. Along with its neighbours, this house forms an aesthetically pleasing group within the streetscape, facing onto the high stone walls which surround Birr Castle Demesne. This building, and two neighbouring buildings to the south, forms part of the streetscape of a photograph taken by the fourth Earl of Rosse in the 1870s and not forms part of the display in Ireland's Historic Science Centre.