Survey Data
Reg No
15503014
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Clubhouse
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
304934, 122012
Date Recorded
16/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay (two-bay deep) four-storey house, extant 1840, on a square plan with shopfront to ground floor. Hipped and pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks (north) having rendered capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered red brick header bond stepped eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to corners (first floor) supporting "Cavetto"-detailed cornice on rosette-detailed frieze. Remodelled rendered shopfront to ground floor centred on timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Quay fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact square plan form; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression with those openings once showing Classically-detailed "stucco" dressings (cf. 15503015); and the high pitched roof. NOTE: A photograph by Robert French (1841-1917) illustrates the shopfront emblazoned "FREDERIC WOOD SEED MERCHANT" (NLI L_ROY_04432) while a later photograph (November 1904) by A.H. Poole (----) of Waterford illustrates the premises rebranded as "St. IBERIUS CATHOLIC CLUB" (NLI POOLEWP 0469).