Survey Data
Reg No
15605041
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
271880, 127621
Date Recorded
21/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay four-storey house, c.1850, possibly over basement incorporating fabric of earlier house, pre-1840, on site. Refenestrated, c.1925. Renovated and part refenestrated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Now in use as offices. One of a group of eight. Pitched (shared) slate roof with red brick Running bond and rendered (shared) chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Rendered walls with steel tie plates. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1925, having replacement uPVC casement windows to top floor. Replacement timber shopfront to ground floor with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane (three-light) timber window having casement overlights, timber panelled doors having overlight, fascia having consoles, and dentilated moulded cornice. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A well composed house of the middle size built as one of group of eight units (including 15605001, 40, 268) representing an element of the redevelopment of the centre of New Ross in the mid nineteenth century. Exhibiting a pleasing, if understated design aesthetic, the architectural value of the house is established by attributes including the slender vertical emphasis of the massing, the slight diminishing in scale of the openings in the Classical manner producing a graduated or tiered visual effect, the sparse surface detailing, and so on. Although some of the character of the house has been compromised following a comprehensive renovation programme undertaken at the end of the twentieth century, the elementary composition characteristics prevail together with some of the historic fabric, thereby continuing to make a beneficial impact on the streetscape value of Quay Street.