Survey Data
Reg No
15505084
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Hospital/infirmary
Date
1720 - 1830
Coordinates
305193, 121397
Date Recorded
05/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey hospital, extant 1830, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on box eaves. Roughcast wall to front (north) elevation; part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing boarded-up six-over-six timber sash windows (ground floor) or six-over-six timber sash windows (first floor). Set in shared grounds.
Appraisal
A hospital contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Wexford Infantry Barrack complex with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a featureless doorcase; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a hospital making a pleasing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in Barrack Street.