Survey Data
Reg No
15601014
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1810 - 1815
Coordinates
315164, 159483
Date Recorded
07/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey double-pile house with dormer attic, built 1812, on a square plan. Renovated, ----. One of a pair. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof centred on gablets to window openings to dormer attic with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with red brick Running bond chimney stacks to apexes having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls. Round-headed central open internal porch approached by two cut-granite steps. Square-headed door opening into house with timber mullions framing timber panelled door having sidelights below overlight. Square-headed window openings with creeper- or ivy-covered cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one sash windows. Set back from line of street with rendered, ruled and lined piers to perimeter having rounded capping supporting looped wrought iron gate.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a pair of houses representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Gorey with the architectural value of the composition, one forming part of a self-contained ensemble most likely named in honour of Charlotte Ram (née Stopford) (1745-1831), suggested by such attributes as the compact near-square plan form centred on a modified doorcase; and the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in Main Street.