Survey Data
Reg No
15502007
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Office
Date
1906 - 1941
Coordinates
304787, 122131
Date Recorded
06/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay three-storey office building, extant 1941, on a rectangular plan including single-bay three-storey (west) or two-bay three-storey (north) elevations. Renovated, 1988, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Now disused. Pitched and hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack (south) having corbelled stepped stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC goods on yellow brick header bond stepped eaves. Red brick Flemish bond walls (upper floors) with yellow brick quoins to corners. Camber- or segmental-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-granite sills, and yellow brick block-and-start surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (first floor): office retaining timber boarded ceiling on timber "Cavetto" cornice. Street fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
An office building representing an important component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling a contemporary house in Main Street South (see 15503072), confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the construction in a vibrant red brick with yellow brick dressings producing an eye-catching two-tone palette (cf. 15502011 - 15502012); and the slight diminishing in scale of the "swept" openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Although much modified at street level in the later twentieth century, the elementary form and massing survive intact overhead together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of an office building making a pleasing visual statement in Main Street North.