Survey Data
Reg No
15603218
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
297122, 139887
Date Recorded
27/05/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced four-bay three-storey house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan with double shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to ends. Double shopfront to ground floor. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-granite sills, and moulded rendered surrounds having rounded reveals framing six-over-six (first floor) or three-over-six (top floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (upper floors): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house representing an important component of the built heritage of Enniscorthy with the architectural value of the composition confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. 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 double shopfront of artistic interest making a pleasing visual statement in Main Street at street level.