Survey Data
Reg No
15502002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1842 - 1903
Coordinates
304749, 122190
Date Recorded
06/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced single-bay three-storey house, extant 1903, on a rectangular plan. One of a terrace of five. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack (east) having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (north) elevation on rendered plinth with rusticated rendered piers to ends. Square-headed door opening (east) with cut-limestone threshold, and moulded rendered surround centred on keystone framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a terrace of five houses (including 15502002) representing an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century domestic 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. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in Skeffington Street.