Survey Data
Reg No
15605196
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
Date
1815 - 1835
Coordinates
272133, 127587
Date Recorded
21/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey townhouse, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, coping to gables with red brick Running bond chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls; creeper- or ivy-covered rendered surface finish to rear (south) elevation. Square-headed central door opening with threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six or three-over-six (top floor) timber sash windows. Paired square-headed central window openings to rear (south) elevation with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six or three-over-six (top floor) timber sash windows. Street fronted on a corner site with tarmacadam footpath to front.
Appraisal
A townhouse representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of New Ross 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. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, 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 townhouse making a pleasing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in Mary Street.