Survey Data
Reg No
15505046
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1842 - 1882
Coordinates
304807, 121393
Date Recorded
05/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey house, extant 1882, on a rectangular plan. One of a pair. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack (south) having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated rendered quoins to ends. Square-headed central door opening with three steps, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete 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 pair of houses representing an integral component of the 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 very slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint 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 making a pleasing visual statement in Carrigeen Street.