Survey Data
Reg No
15500052
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
304696, 122209
Date Recorded
23/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace single-bay (three-bay deep) three-storey house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor; two-bay three-storey rear (east) elevation. Refenestrated, ----. Hipped and pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack (west) having stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Timber shopfront to ground floor on a symmetrical plan centred on glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings originally in tripartite arrangement (upper floors) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows having two-over-two sidelights. Street fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested 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 with those openings originally showing Wyatt-style tripartite glazing patterns. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including a symmetrically-composed shopfront of artistic interest: however, the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in Selskar Street.