Survey Data
Reg No
15502156
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1815 - 1840
Coordinates
304583, 121600
Date Recorded
06/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey over basement house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. One of a terrace of six. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having rendered capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered red brick header bond stepped eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite threshold, and cut-granite block-and-start surround centred on keystone with "Cavetto" hood moulding framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds framing timber panelled doors, moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling, staircase on a dog leg plan with turned timber "spindle" balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in turned timber newels, and carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors. Set back from street with rendered, ruled and lined boundary wall to perimeter having cut-granite coping supporting arrow head-detailed wrought iron railings centred on arrow head-detailed wrought iron gate.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a terrace of six identical houses (including 15602190 - 15602193; 15604026) representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one allegedly erected for occupation by a veteran returning from the Battle of Waterloo (1815), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a Classically-detailed doorcase demonstrating good quality workmanship; and the very 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 interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in Waterloo Road.