Survey Data
Reg No
22504426
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Previous Name
W.F. Peare originally Peare's Motor Works
Original Use
Garage
In Use As
Garage
Date
1900 - 1905
Coordinates
260954, 112190
Date Recorded
16/07/2003
Date Updated
--/--/--
Description
Attached nine- or ten-bay two-storey garage, built 1901-2, on a rectangular plan originally six-bay two-storey with shopfront to ground floor. Sold, 1917. Sold, 1999. Roof not visible behind parapet. Rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (east) elevation with ogee-detailed moulded rendered cornice on blind frieze on stringcourse below parapet. Rendered shopfront to ground floor. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A garage erected by William Francis Peare (1868-1948) representing an important component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of County Waterford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the elongated plan form; the dramatic diminishing in scale of the irregularly-spaced openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the parapeted roof: meanwhile, aspects of the composition clearly illustrate the continued linear development of the garage by John Kelly (----) who purchased the property (1917) when W.F. Peare Limited went into liquidation owing to petrol rationing at the height of the First World War (1914-8). NOTE: A plaque records that "WILLIAM PEARE ESTABLISHED IRELAND'S FIRST MOTOR GARAGE IN THIS BUILDING".