Survey Data
Reg No
15505089
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Malt house
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
305153, 121175
Date Recorded
05/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Attached eight-bay four-storey malthouse, c.1850, probably incorporating fabric of earlier ranges, pre-1840, on site with carriageway to ground floor. Undergoing extensive reconstruction, 2005-6, to accommodate proposed use as apartments. Hipped gabled roof reconstructed, 2005-6, with replacement slate, clay ridge tiles, and replacement rainwater goods on eaves. Random rubble stone walls repaired, 2005-6, with cast-iron tie plates to upper floors. Square-headed window openings originally square-headed window openings in camber-headed recesses remodelled, 2005-6, with sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds, and replacement casement windows, 2005-6. Square-headed carriageway to ground floor with red brick block-and-start surround supporting lintel, and no fittings. Interior reconstructed, 2005-6. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A substantial malthouse contributing significantly to the group and setting values of a self-contained complex (including 15505111 - 112) representing an important element of the industrial legacy of Wexford Town having supported much of the local agricultural economy since the mid nineteenth century: archival editions of the Ordnance Survey indicating a collection of earlier ranges on site suggest the potential earlier provenance of the complex. Although presently (2005-6) undergoing a comprehensive reconstruction programme to accommodate an alternative use, some of the elementary attributes prevail as identified by the traditional construction in unrefined local field stone with red brick accents producing an appealing palette, the regular distribution of the openings on each floor, and so on, thus maintaining some of the character or integrity of a composition making a strong visual statement in the street scene of The Faythe.