Survey Data
Reg No
15605124
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
271863, 127356
Date Recorded
21/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor; two-bay three-storey rear (east) elevation. Refenestrated. One of a terrace of four. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered, ruled and lined red brick Running bond chimney stack (north) having stringcourse below capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves with cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (west) elevation with channelled pilaster to end. Timber shopfront to ground floor on a symmetrical plan. 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. Street fronted with footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a terrace of four houses (including 15605125 - 15605127) representing an integral component of the nineteenth-century built heritage of New Ross with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the symmetrical shopfront showing curiously angular Classical detailing; 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: however, the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the character of a house forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in South Street.