Ardlea

Terraced four-bay single-storey local authority house, built 1930. One of a terrace of six. Pitched (shared) roof with red fibre-cement slate having chamfered corners, clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stacks, and rainwater goods on timber eaves. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with two tiled steps, and replacement glazed timber panelled door, pre-1993. Set back from street in own grounds with roughcast boundary wall having coping supporting iron railings, rendered piers having capping, and flat iron gate [VO].

A pleasant small-scale house built as one of a group of six identical units (remainder in terrace not included in survey) representing an element of the interwar development of the suburbs of Wexford Town by the local authority. Having been well maintained to present an early aspect with most of the original fabric surviving in place, the house upholds some of the integrity of an ensemble making a pleasing visual impression in Menapia Avenue.