Survey Data
Reg No
15509005
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
305605, 120709
Date Recorded
05/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Attached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan originally terraced. One of a pair. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof with ridge tiles, lichen-spotted concrete or rendered coping to gable (south) with rendered battered chimney stack to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposes sash boxes. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a pair of houses representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of Wexford with the underlying vernacular basis of the composition confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing graduated visual impression; and the roof originally showing a thatch finish according to an entry in the "House and Building Return" Form of the National Census (NA 1901; NA 1911).