Survey Data
Reg No
15502077
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1930 - 1935
Coordinates
304254, 121664
Date Recorded
06/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay two-storey house, built 1933, with single-bay single-storey lean-to advanced porch to right ground floor, and single-bay two-storey gabled advanced end bay to left having two-storey canted bay window. One of a pair. Hipped (shared) roof (gabled to end bay; lean-to to porch; hipped to bay window) with fibre-cement slate having chamfered corners, terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Rendered walls to ground floor with stringcourse supporting roughcast walls to first floor. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills forming sill courses to bay window, and timber casement windows incorporating square-leaded panels. Square-headed door opening with step, and glazed timber panelled door having sidelights. Set back from street in own grounds with roughcast boundary wall having coping, roughcast piers having capping, and iron gate [VO].
Appraisal
A pleasantly composed house built as one of a pair (second in pair not included in survey) representing an important element of the interwar development of the suburbs of Wexford Town by private speculators. Having been very well maintained to present an early aspect with the elementary 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 Road.