Survey Data
Reg No
15701944
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Worker's house
In Use As
House
Date
1842 - 1901
Coordinates
295781, 139408
Date Recorded
22/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace three-bay single-storey worker's house with half-dormer attic, occupied 1901, on a rectangular plan. One of a terrace of five. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, grey brick Running bond chimney stack (west) having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves. Rendered coursed rubble stone battered walls with concealed red brick flush quoins to corners. Square-headed door opening (west) with cut-limestone threshold, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one (ground floor) or three-over-six (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Road fronted.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a terrace of five houses representing an integral component of the nineteenth-century built heritage of the environs of Enniscorthy with the architectural value of the composition, one intended for occupation by a worker employed at the nearby Carley's Bridge Woollen Factory (NA 1901; NA 1911), 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. 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 somewhat featureless interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.