Survey Data
Reg No
15704309
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1880 - 1901
Coordinates
310092, 114819
Date Recorded
31/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1901, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey projecting open porch to ground floor; single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (west). Renovated, ----, to accommodate occasional use. One of a pair. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof on a T-shaped plan with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from road in landscaped grounds with roughcast piers to perimeter having chamfered capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron gate.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a pair (including 15704310) representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Rosslare with the architectural value of the composition, one possibly connected with the Johnstown Castle estate with the names FitzGerald and Leinster alluding to Lord Maurice FitzGerald (1852-1901), confirmed by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a Classically-detailed porch; and the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior: the introduction of replacement fittings to the openings, however, has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of a house forming part of a neat self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a seaside village setting presently (2007) undergoing extensive "suburban" development.