Survey Data
Reg No
15505086
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1890 - 1895
Coordinates
305178, 121239
Date Recorded
05/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two- or three-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, built 1893, on a rectangular plan. Vacant, 2005. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, paired rooflights to front (west) pitch, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered stepped eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered pier to end. Square-headed central door opening with step threshold, and concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (first floor) with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows having two-over-two sidelights. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the late nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a featureless doorcase; the "scaling up" of the proportions of the openings on each floor producing a tiered visual effect with those openings showing Wyatt-style tripartite glazing patterns (cf. 15505022; 15505080); and the high pitched roofline. 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 Kevin Barry Street.