Survey Data
Reg No
15602027
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
Date
1800 - 1839
Coordinates
291326, 156800
Date Recorded
14/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay three-storey over basement house, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Now disused. One of a pair. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered wall to front (west) elevation with rusticated rendered quoins to end. Timber shopfront to ground floor including pair of square-headed door openings with timber panelled double doors (north) or timber panelled door (south) having overlights. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (upper floors): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a pair of houses representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of Bunclody with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including a Classically-detailed shopfront of artistic interest making a pleasing visual statement in Market Square at street level. NOTE: Occupied (1901; 1911) by Ellen Brennan (d. 1912), 'Milliner late of Newtownbarry [Bunclody] County Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1912, 45).