Survey Data
Reg No
15607004
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1870 - 1875
Coordinates
303871, 122731
Date Recorded
05/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey cottage, dated 1874. Renovated and refenestrated, c.1975. Reroofed. One of a group of thirteen. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stacks having profiled or stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and iron rainwater goods on timber eaves board having iron ties. Replacement rendered walls, c.1975. Square-headed window openings with sills, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1975. Square-headed door opening with replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1975. Set back from line of street with whitewashed (limewashed) random rubble stone boundary wall to forecourt having rubble stone piers incorporating red brick dressings supporting iron gate [DS].
Appraisal
A picturesque small-scale cottage purpose-built by a now-forgotten patron ("J.R.") as one of a group of thirteen units (including 15607001 - 03, 05 - 13) intended, according to local tradition, for local fishermen setting out from the adjacent Wexford Harbour or for employees at the nearby Wexford Town Railway Station (see 15500034) opened in the same year (1874) by the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) Company. Although the external expression of the cottage has been undermined by the introduction of replacement fittings to the openings, the simple architectural attributes survive more-or-less in place, thereby upholding the character of a collective ensemble producing a slight arc contributing picturesquely to the modest, almost vernacular streetscape quality in Carcur.