Survey Data
Reg No
15603079
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
297282, 139813
Date Recorded
13/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay three-storey house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Renovated, ----. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack (north) having stringcourse below capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Timber shopfront to ground floor on a symmetrical plan centred on glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six (first floor) or three-over-six (top floor) 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 brick cobbled footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the built heritage of Enniscorthy 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. Having been well maintained, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including a symmetrically-composed shopfront of artistic interest: 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 Castle Street. NOTE: Encaustic tile work perpetuates the memory of James Roche (d. 1900) 'late of Castle-street Enniscorthy County Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1901, 420).