Survey Data
Reg No
15503048
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Shop/retail outlet
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1930 - 1935
Coordinates
304933, 121764
Date Recorded
16/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey flat-roofed commercial building, designed 1934, on a rectangular plan. Renovated, ----, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Flat roof behind parapet with concealed rainwater goods. Rendered wall (first floor) with concrete coping to parapet. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (first floor) with concrete sill courses, and rusticated rendered surrounds framing steel casement windows having horizontal glazing bars. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A commercial building erected to designs signed (1934) by Thomas Joseph Cullen (1879-1947) of Suffolk Street, Dublin (DIA), representing an important component of the twentieth-century built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition confirmed by such attributes as the elongated rectilinear plan form; the tripartite openings showing characteristic horizontal glazing patterns; and the parapeted roofline.