Abbeyview House

Detached three-bay two-storey over raised basement house, built 1890, on a T-shaped plan originally three-bay two-storey over basement on a rectangular plan; single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey central return (north). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on hipped gabled slate roof (north), clay ridge tiles, rendered buttressed chimney stacks having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta pots with red brick Running bond chimney stack (north) having stringcourse below corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta pot, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings centred on square-headed blind window opening (ground floor) with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (north) with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.

A house representing an integral component of the late nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of New Ross with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form; and the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by 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 interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in the shadow of Saint Mary's Church (Saint Mary's New Ross). NOTE: Occupied (1901; 1911) by Andrew Cullen (1848-192-), 'Builder [and] Mason' (NA 1911; cf. 15605113; 15605165; 15605235; 15606015 - 15606016; 15703524).