Survey Data
Reg No
15607012
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1870 - 1875
Coordinates
303824, 122722
Date Recorded
05/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey cottage, dated 1874. Refenestrated, c.1900. One of a group of thirteen. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond and rendered (shared) chimney stacks having profiled or stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Whitewashed (limewashed) fine roughcast lime rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and replacement two-over-two timber sash windows, c.1900. Square-headed door opening with replacement glazed timber panelled door. Set back from line of street with whitewashed (limewashed) random rubble stone boundary wall to forecourt having rubble stone piers incorporating red brick dressings, and iron gate now missing [DS].
Appraisal
A picturesque small-scale cottage purpose-built by a now-forgotten patron ("J.R.") as one of a group of thirteen units (including 15607001 - 11, 13) intended, according to local tradition, for local fishermen setting out from the adjacent Wexford Harbour or for employees at the nearby Wexford Town Railway Station (see 15500034) opened in the same year (1874) by the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) Company. Having been very well maintained, the cottage presents an early aspect with the simple architectural attributes surviving in place together with most of the historic fabric, thereby upholding the character of a collective ensemble producing a slight arc contributing picturesquely to the modest, almost vernacular streetscape quality in Carcur.