Survey Data
Reg No
15604008
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1935 - 1940
Coordinates
297094, 139393
Date Recorded
13/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached two-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey house, built 1938, on a square plan. Pyramidal slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (south) with concrete sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening (north) with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window opening (first floor) with concrete sill, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with rendered piers to perimeter having stepped capping supporting timber gate.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the twentieth-century domestic built heritage of Enniscorthy with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling the earlier Knockardagh (1917) in Ferns (see 15612019), suggested by such attributes as the compact near-square plan form; the diminishing in scale of the multipartite openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression with the principal "apartments" defined by bipartite bay windows; and the high pitched near-pyramidal roofline. 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, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in a suburban street scene.