Survey Data
Reg No
15505025
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1875 - 1880
Coordinates
304884, 121539
Date Recorded
05/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey townhouse, built 1879, on a square plan; two-bay three-storey rear (south) elevation. Refenestrated, ----. One of a terrace of eight. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping to gables with red brick Running bond chimney stacks to apexes having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron hopper and downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed door opening with cut-granite threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A townhouse erected as one of a terrace of eight houses (including 15505024; 15505026 - 15505031) representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the high pitched roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior: however, the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of a townhouse forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement overlooking Saint Peter's Square.