Survey Data
Reg No
15505044
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1860 - 1865
Coordinates
304842, 121395
Date Recorded
05/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced single- or two-bay two-storey house, built 1862, on a rectangular plan. One of a terrace of three. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack (west) having rendered capping supporting terracotta pots with red brick Running bond chimney stack (east) having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed door opening (south) with step threshold, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window opening in square-headed shutter recess (east) with cut-granite sill, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash window. Square-headed window opening (first floor) with cut-granite sill, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash window. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a terrace of three houses 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; 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, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in Bride Street.