Survey Data
Reg No
15605027
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
271949, 127740
Date Recorded
21/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey house, c.1850, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, pre-1840, on site with shopfront to ground floor. Refenestrated, c.1925. Now disused to upper floors. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack having capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves over red brick construction having iron ties. Remains of fine roughcast lime rendered walls over coursed random rubble stone construction with concealed red brick quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1925, retaining three-over-three timber sash windows to top floor without horns. Timber shopfront to ground floor with fluted pilasters on cut-stone padstones, fixed-pane (three-light) timber display window, timber panelled double doors having overlight, timber panelled door to house having overlight, fascia having gabled elongated fluted consoles, and moulded cornice. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A well appointed house of the middle size built as one of a group of three identical units (with 15605028 - 29) identified in the streetscape on account of attributes including the vertical emphasis of the massing rising above the flanking ranges in the street, the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor in the Classical manner producing a dignified tiered visual effect, and so on. Although having fallen into some disrepair, the elementary attributes prevail together with most of the historic fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior including a particularly fine shopfront of artistic design distinction displaying good quality craftsmanship: meanwhile, the survival of an early commercial interior further enhances the position of the site as a vital element of the built heritage of New Ross.