Survey Data
Reg No
15601052
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
Date
1842 - 1904
Coordinates
315582, 159579
Date Recorded
07/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay two-storey house, extant 1904, on a rectangular plan originally forming part of larger three-bay two-storey composition. Subdivided, ----, producing present composition. Now disused. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered (west) or red brick Running bond (east) chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered wall to front (south) elevation on rendered plinth; roughcast surface finish (remainder). Square-headed central door opening with concrete step threshold, and concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Elliptical-headed window opening in bipartite arrangement (first floor) with flush surround having chamfered reveals framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the nineteenth-century built heritage of Gorey with the architectural value of the composition, one originally forming part of a larger symmetrically-composed house, suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on an elegant bipartite glazing pattern; and the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the very slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression.