Survey Data
Reg No
15507018
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Worker's house
In Use As
House
Date
1945 - 1950
Coordinates
304607, 120885
Date Recorded
05/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey foundry worker's house, built 1947, with canted bay window to right ground floor. Refenestrated, pre-1993. Now in private residential use. One of a group of thirteen. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick English Garden Wall bond chimney stack on axis with ridge having stepped capping incorporating saw tooth-profiled course supporting terracotta pots, rendered coping, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, post-1996, on red brick header bond eaves. Roughcast walls on random rubble stone base with rendered stringcourses to each floor. Square-headed window openings (including to bay window on red brick English Garden Wall bond jetty having buttresses or corbels) with concrete sills forming part of sill courses (on 'timber frame' riser to bay window), and replacement uPVC casement windows, pre-1993. Pointed segmental-headed door opening approached by cantilevered causeway with red brick block-and-start surround, and replacement glazed uPVC panelled door, pre-1993, having overlight. Street fronted with random rubble stone boundary or retaining wall to river having rubble stone coping, and red brick Running bond pointed-arch panelled piers having red brick or terracotta courses supporting red brick stepped capping [VO/SS].
Appraisal
A picturesque house of small to modest size built as one of a group of four identical units (with 15507017, 19 - 21) forming part of a development of thirteen houses (with 15507009 - 16) representing an important element of the mid twentieth-century domestic built legacy of Wexford Town having been established for middle management based at the nearby Pierce Ironworks Foundry complex (or Mill Road Iron Works or Folly Mills Iron Works and Agricultural Machinery and Implement Factory) (see 15505068 - 69). However, while the elementary composition attributes prevail, the character or external expression of the house or the collective ensemble has not benefited from the introduction of replacement fittings to the openings.