Survey Data
Reg No
15502074
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1935 - 1940
Coordinates
304157, 121710
Date Recorded
06/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built 1938, on a symmetrical plan with square-headed open internal porch to centre ground floor having pair of flanking bow bay windows. One of a group of four. Hipped roof with profiled clay tile, clay ridge tiles, roughcast chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and aluminium rainwater goods on timber eaves. Rendered walls to ground floor on rendered plinth with stepped stringcourse incorporating stepped cornices to bay windows supporting roughcast walls to first floor. Square-headed window openings (paired to first floor) with concrete sills forming sill courses to bay windows, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed open internal porch with clay-tiled threshold leading to square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled door having sidelights, and overlight. Set back from street in own grounds with roughcast boundary wall having coping, roughcast piers having stepped capping, and iron double gates [VO].
Appraisal
A pleasantly composed house built as one of a group of four identical or almost identical units (including 15502071, 73) forming part of a larger collection of twelve houses (including 15502072, 75 - 76) of modest to middle size established by a now-unrecorded private speculator representing an important element of the wartime or mid twentieth-century domestic architectural heritage on account of the contribution made to the expansion of the suburbs of Wexford Town. Having been very well maintained to present an early aspect with the original composition attributes surviving in place together with most of the original fabric, the house continues to make a positive contribution to the character or streetscape value of Saint John's Drive.