Survey Data
Reg No
15502092
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1925 - 1935
Coordinates
304385, 121793
Date Recorded
06/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached four-bay single-storey house, built 1929-32, on an L-shaped plan with two-bay single-storey gabled projecting end bay. One of a pair forming part of a group of eight. Pitched red fibre-cement slate roof on an L-shaped plan with trefoil-perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack having precast concrete capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, quatrefoil-perforated decorative timber bargeboards to gable on timber purlins with terracotta finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Gritdashed roughcast walls on rendered stringcourse on rendered base. Round-headed off-central open internal porch with rendered surround. Square-headed door opening with timber mullions supporting timber transom, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door having sidelights on panelled risers below overlight. Square-headed window opening in quadripartite arrangement (west) with pair of square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (east), concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with gritdashed roughcast piers to perimeter having precast concrete capping supporting iron gate.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a pair of houses representing an important component of the early twentieth-century domestic built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition confirmed by such attributes as the angular plan form off-centred on a restrained doorcase; the multipartite openings showing restrained Art Deco stained glass; and the decorative timber work embellishing the roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained ensemble (including 15502090) making a pleasing visual statement framing the centre point of Saint John's Road.