shop/retail outlet

Terraced two-bay two-storey retail outlet, built c.1890, having a timber shopfront to the ground floor. Pitched natural slate roof (partly replaced) having cast-iron rainwater goods and a moulded rendered chimneystack to the west end having terracotta chimneypots over. red brick finish to the first floor having segmental-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Traditional timber shopfront to the ground floor, comprising a central square-headed doorcase with glazed timber double doors and a plain overlight, flanked to either side by two-pane square-headed display windows over rendered stallrisers. Timber pilasters to either end having carved timber console brackets over supporting timber fascia board with moulded timber cornice above. Road-fronted to the north side of Austin Friars Street and to the east side of Mullingar.

A typical late nineteenth-century terraced building, which retains its early form, character and fabric. This building is enhanced by the survival of a well-detailed traditional timber shopfront to the ground floor. This shopfront is a type once a ubiquitous feature of Irish Towns but now an increasing rare survival. It is based on a simplification of the classical formula of columns with entablature over, a typical feature of Irish traditional shopfronts. This appealing structure is a notable feature in the streetscape of Austin Friars Street and is a worthy addition to the built heritage of Mullingar.