Survey Data
Reg No
15601036
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1935 - 1940
Coordinates
315736, 159850
Date Recorded
07/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Archival Description [Demolished 2010]: End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey local authority house, built 1936; extant 1940, on a rectangular plan. One of a terrace of four forming part of a group of sixty-six. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick English Garden Wall bond chimney stack (south) having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Paired square-headed (south) or square-headed (north) window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening (north) with three concrete steps, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door. Set back from road with rendered piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting flat iron gate.
Appraisal
Archival Appraisal [Demolished 2010]: A house erected to a design by Michael Jordan (----) of Dublin (Irish Builder 1936, 166) representing an integral component of the twentieth-century built heritage of Gorey with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling a contemporary development (1939) in Bunclody (see 15602054 - 15602055), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; and the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression (cf. 15601035).