Survey Data
Reg No
15603024
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1790 - 1810
Coordinates
297185, 139875
Date Recorded
13/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay three-storey house with dormer attic, c.1800, with elliptical-headed carriageway to right ground floor. Refenestrated, c.1900. Reroofed, 1972, with dormer attic formalised. Renovated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement fibre-cement slate, 1972, clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stacks having stepped capping, rendered coping to party walls, flat bitumen felt roof, 1972, to dormer attic window, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement two-over-two timber sash windows, c.1900, having timber casement windows to dormer attic. Elliptical-headed carriageway to right ground floor with tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Replacement timber shopfront to ground floor with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane display window on panelled riser, tiled threshold leading to glazed timber panelled door having overlight, fascia having consoles, and cornice. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.
Appraisal
Although the subject of a number of unsympathetic alteration works carried out over the course of the mid to late twentieth century, with particular emphasis on an unsightly dormer attic window, the basic composition characteristics of a house of modest size prevail as identified by attributes including the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor, the distinctive stepped arrangement of those openings, and so on. Furthermore, the retention of substantial quantities of the historic fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, confirms the status of the site as an important element of the built legacy of Enniscorthy.