Survey Data
Reg No
15505005
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1865 - 1870
Coordinates
305089, 121533
Date Recorded
05/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built 1866-7, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor. Now in occasional use. One of a terrace of four. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered central chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (south) elevation with rusticated rendered quoins to ends. Timber shopfront to ground floor. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (upper floors): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house erected by Richard Devereux (d. 1883) as one of a terrace of four houses representing an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a 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, including a traditional Irish shopfront of artistic interest making a pleasing visual statement in Main Street South at street level. NOTE: Given as the site of the medieval Stonebridge Castle taken from the Staffords for the purpose of a temporary gaol during the Cromwellian Sack of Wexford (1649; Kehoe 1985, 43-4).