Survey Data
Reg No
15601124
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Hall
Date
1842 - 1904
Coordinates
315331, 159549
Date Recorded
17/01/2007
Date Updated
--/--/--
Description
Attached four-bay two-storey house, extant 1904, on a rectangular plan including two-bay two-storey (north) or single-bay two-storey (west) elevations with pair of shopfronts to ground floor. Renovated, ----, to accommodate alternative use. One of a pair. Pitched and hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered (east) or red brick Running bond (west) chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron rainwater goods (south) on slate flagged eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined coursed rubble stone walls with rendered band to eaves. Pair of rendered shopfronts centred on square-headed door opening with timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (first floor): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled reveals or shutters. Street fronted on a corner site with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a pair of houses representing an important component of the nineteenth-century built heritage of Gorey with the architectural value of the composition confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form negotiating the corner via a curvilinear bow (cf. 15601021; 15601027); and 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, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in Main Street at street level. NOTE: Occupied (1911) by Moses Kenny (----), 'Grocer [and] Publican' (NA 1911).