Survey Data
Reg No
15503120
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
304817, 121729
Date Recorded
05/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a square plan; two-bay two-storey rear (south) elevation. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, coping to gables with red brick Running bond chimney stacks to apexes having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, pair of rooflights to rear (south) pitch, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered red brick header bond stepped eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined battered walls. Square-headed door opening (west) with concealed dressings including lintel framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window opening (east) with cut-granite sill, and concealed dressings including lintel framing three-over-six timber sash window having part exposed sash box. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings including lintels framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns having part exposed sash boxes. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact square plan form; the feint battered silhouette; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the high pitched roofline. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, including crown or cylinder glazing panels in hornless sash frames, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in Mary Street.