Survey Data
Reg No
15502154
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1880 - 1885
Coordinates
304642, 121713
Date Recorded
07/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, built 1883, on a rectangular plan. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack having capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Camber-headed central door opening approached by flight of four steps, timber doorcase with panelled pilasters on padstones, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Camber-headed flanking window openings in square-headed shutter recesses with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Camber-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one allegedly repurposing an earlier house occupied by the foreman of the nearby Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception (15502138; pers. comm.), suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a restrained doorcase; and the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression. 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 restrained interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in Francis Street.