Survey Data
Reg No
15603022
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
297163, 139882
Date Recorded
13/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor. One of a pair. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, pair of rooflights to front (north) pitch, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered stepped eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Timber shopfront to ground floor. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one (first floor) or two-over-one (top floor) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a pair of houses (including 15603021) representing an integral component of the built heritage of Enniscorthy with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the high pitched roof. Having been well maintained, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including a Classically-detailed shopfront of artistic interest making a pleasing visual statement in Main Street at street level.