Survey Data
Reg No
15603146
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Store/warehouse
Date
1815 - 1835
Coordinates
297235, 139947
Date Recorded
13/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Attached four-bay three-storey warehouse, c.1825, originally terraced. Reroofed, c.1950. Now disused. Pitched roof with replacement corrugated-iron, c.1950, concrete ridge, rendered coping to party wall, and no rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction with cast-iron tie plates to upper floors, and exposed random rubble stone construction to side (east) elevation incorporating section of red brick irregular bond construction. Square-headed window openings with no sills, concealed dressings, and fixed-pane timber fittings having iron bars. Square-headed door openings including loading door to first floor with concealed dressings, and timber boarded doors. Street fronted.
Appraisal
Representing an important element of the early nineteenth-century commercial or industrial legacy of Enniscorthy, a modest warehouse exhibiting an unassuming architectural design programme makes a positive contribution of almost urban vernacular quality to the streetscape. Having been well maintained, the warehouse continues to present an early aspect with much of the historic or original fabric surviving in place, thus upholding some of the character of a setting presently (2005-6) undergoing extensive redevelopment.