Survey Data
Reg No
15502190
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1815 - 1840
Coordinates
304590, 121605
Date Recorded
10/01/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey over basement house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan; two-bay full-height rear (south) elevation. Renovated, 2006-7. One of a terrace of six. Replacement pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having capping supporting terracotta pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Replacement rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to ends. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement eight-over-eight sash windows. Set back from street with rendered, ruled and lined boundary wall to perimeter having cut-granite coping supporting wrought iron railings centred on wrought iron gate.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a terrace of six identical houses (including 15502156; 15602191 - 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; Rowe and Scallan 2004, 904), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; 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 quantities of the original or replicated fabric, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in Waterloo Road.