Survey Data
Reg No
15605184
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
272257, 127796
Date Recorded
21/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay three-storey house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor. Occupied, 1901. Vacant, 1911. Renovated, ----. Now disused. Replacement pitched profiled tile roof with concrete ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stepped capping, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Timber shopfront to ground floor. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings with fittings now boarded up. Street fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of New Ross with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the rectilinear plan form; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. A prolonged period of neglect notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the historic or original fabric including not only a traditional Irish shopfront of artistic interest making a pleasing visual statement in Haughton Place at street level, but also a "lamp box" post box carrying the Cló Gaelach or "Old Irish Lettering" defining the monogram of the Department or Posts and Telegraphs (fl. 1924-84).