Survey Data
Reg No
15603053
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1840 - 1845
Coordinates
297220, 139708
Date Recorded
13/06/2005
Date Updated
--/--/--
Description
Terraced three-bay four-storey house, dated 1842, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Renovated, ----, to accommodate continued alternative use [OFFICE]. Pitched slate roof behind parapet with clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables with rendered, ruled and lined chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and concealed rainwater goods retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with cut-granite coping to parapet. Granite ashlar shopfront to ground floor on an asymmetrical plan with fixed-pane timber fittings centred on replacement fixed-pane timber fitting replacing timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sill course, and concealed dressings framing replacement casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house representing an important component of the mid nineteenth-century built heritage of Enniscorthy with the architectural value of the composition, one carrying the initials of a now-unknown builder ("P.C"), confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the parapeted roofline. 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, including a so-called "Enniscorthy Shopfront" demonstrating good quality workmanship in a silver-grey granite: however, the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in Court Street. NOTE: Occupied (1901) by Tobias Rossiter (----), 'Victualler' (NA 1901); and (1911) by Patrick Rossiter (----), 'Grocer' (NA 1911).