Survey Data
Reg No
15700715
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
316182, 160243
Date Recorded
26/10/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement Church of Ireland glebe house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan with two-bay two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1984. Renovated, ----. Set in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site.
Appraisal
A glebe house representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century built heritage of Gorey with the architectural value of the composition, one not only attributed to Sir Richard Morrison (1767-1849) of Clonmel and Dublin (DIA) but also recalling the contemporary glebe house (1810) in Castleellis (see 15702723), confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a restrained doorcase showing a simple radial fanlight; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, an adjacent coach house-cum-stable outbuilding (extant 1840) continues to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble having historic connections with the Kilmakilloge parish Church of Ireland clergy including Reverend John Robert Dowse (1814-92), 'Dean of Ferns…late of The Rectory Gorey County Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1892, 232); Reverend Henry Rennison (1854-1934), 'Clergyman [and] Rector' (NA 1901; cf. 15701226; 15703747); Reverend Samuel Ridgeway (1873-1951), 'Clerk in Holy Orders' (NA 1911); and Reverend John Rothwell Willis (1868-1949).