Survey Data
Reg No
15601083
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1842 - 1904
Coordinates
315555, 159469
Date Recorded
07/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey house, extant 1904, on a rectangular plan. Reroofed, ----. One of a terrace of five. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door. 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 erected as one of a terrace of five houses (including 15601082) representing an integral component of the nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Gorey with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; and the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by 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, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in Wexford Street.