The Fashion Shop

Terraced two-bay three-storey townhouse, extant 1838, with shopfront to ground floor. Renovated. One of a pair. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with ridge tiles, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered cut-limestone eaves[?] retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Timber shopfront to ground floor on a symmetrical plan. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-one timber sash (first floor) or replacement uPVC casement (top floor) windows. Interior including (upper floors): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Street fronted with cobbled footpath to front.

A townhouse erected as one of a pair (including 31204043) representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Ballina with the architectural value of the composition, one of the 'many new houses built [within the last ten years] by merchants and others engaged in trade and commerce' (Lewis 1837 I, 104), suggested by such traits as the compact plan form; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including a Classically-composed shopfront of artistic interest: the gradual introduction of replacement fittings to the openings, however, has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of a townhouse forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in Pearse Street.