Survey Data
Reg No
15504003
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1875 - 1880
Coordinates
304797, 121505
Date Recorded
06/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built 1879, on a rectangular plan. One of a terrace of eight or eleven. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Segmental-headed door opening (east) with threshold, and concealed dressings having splayed reveals framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a terrace of eight or eleven houses representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form; the slight diminishing in scale of the staggered openings on each floor producing a feint graduate visual impression; and the high pitched roof showing a small cut slate finish. 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, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in Grogan's Road.