Survey Data
Reg No
15502096
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1930 - 1935
Coordinates
304443, 121785
Date Recorded
07/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey house, built 1932, on an L-shaped plan with two-bay single-storey gabled projecting end bay. One of a group of three. Hipped and 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 (east) with pair of square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (west), concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Set back from line of street in landscaped grounds with panelled piers to perimeter having precast concrete capping supporting timber gate.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a group of three houses (including 15502102 - 15502103) 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; 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, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in Saint John's Road.