Survey Data
Reg No
15502081
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1925 - 1935
Coordinates
304332, 121789
Date Recorded
06/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached three-bay single-storey house, built 1930, with elliptical-headed open internal porch to centre, single-bay single-storey advanced bay to right, and single-bay single-storey gabled advanced end bay to left. One of a pair. Hipped roof (gabled to end bay) with profiled clay tile, clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack having capping supporting terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gable on consoles having finial to apex, slightly sproketed eaves, and iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves. Rendered plinth with stringcourse supporting fine roughcast walls having rendered dressings to gable. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and timber casement windows incorporating leaded stained glass panels. Elliptical-headed open internal porch with rendered surround, step leading to square-headed door opening with carved timber surround framing timber mullions, and glazed timber panelled door having sidelights on panelled risers. Set back from line of street in own grounds on an elevated site with rendered boundary wall having coping supporting iron railings [VO].
Appraisal
A pleasantly composed house built as one of an identical pair (with 15502082) representing an important element of the interwar development of the suburbs of Wexford Town by private speculators. Having been very well maintained, the house continues to present an early aspect with the elementary composition attributes surviving in place together with most of the original fabric, thus upholding the positive contribution made to the character or streetscape value of Davitt Road North.