Survey Data
Reg No
15505052
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1855 - 1865
Coordinates
305119, 121461
Date Recorded
05/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced single-bay three-storey house, built 1860, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, pre-1840, on site with single-bay three-storey lean-to lower return to south-east. One of a group of five. Pitched (shared) slate roof continuing into lean-to to return with clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack having profiled capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with slate hanging to rear (south-east) elevation. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds, concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds, six-over-six (ground floor), eight-over-eight (first floor) and four-over-eight (top floor) timber sash windows having three-over-six or six-over-six timber sash windows to rear (south-east) elevation. Square-headed door opening with padstones, and timber panelled door having overlight. Interior with timber panelled reveals or shutters to window openings. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front [VO].
Appraisal
A pleasantly appointed house of modest size built as one of a group of five related units (including 15505051) making a positive impression in King Street Upper with attributes identifying an amiable design programme including the slender vertical emphasis of the massing, the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor in the Classical manner producing an elegant tiered visual effect in the composition, and so on. Having been well maintained, the house remains as one of the last in the group to present an early aspect with most of the historic fabric in place, both to the exterior and to the interior including sections of increasingly-rare slate hanging once representing a characteristic common in Wexford Town, thus contributing to the character of the street scene.