Sheehy, house in County Limerick

What is recorded here

Sheehy on Knightstreet has a modest house upstairs and three grand, round-headed shopfront windows below. You’d go in for a pound of butter and come out engaged to it.

Terraced three-bay two-storey house and former shop, built c. 1800, having timber shopfront to front (east) elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having render quoins. Square-headed openings to first floor with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed openings to north and south elevations having fixed windows. Square-headed opening to ground floor with timber casement window and concrete sill. Square-headed opening having replacement half-glazed timber panelled door. Tripartite shopfront comprising timber engaged columns supporting entablature over fascia with raised lettering. Square-headed display openings with inset bipartite round-headed fixed windows having carved timber surrounds. Square-headed opening with flanking timber engaged columns and timber battened double-leaf doors.

This well proportioned, modest house is enhanced by the decorative tripartite shopfront, along with the retention of timber sash windows. The house has an unassuming appearance and makes a valuable contribution to the village of Ballingarry.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21827007

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