Bel-Air

Terraced single- or two-bay two-storey local authority house, built 1950, on a rectangular plan; three-bay two-storey rear (south) elevation. One of a terrace of four forming part of a group of seventy-six. Pitched profiled concrete tile roof with concrete ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stack (east) having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered wall (ground floor) on rendered plinth; roughcast surface finish (first floor). Square-headed door opening (west) with concrete step threshold, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber boarded door having overlight. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement with concrete sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having one-over-one sidelights. Set back from line of road on a slightly elevated site with rendered piers to perimeter having stepped capping supporting flat iron gate.

A house representing an integral component of the mid twentieth-century domestic built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling contemporary houses in nearby Bishop's Water (see 15507024 - 15507027) and thereby attributable to Thomas J. Millar (----) of the Housing Staff of Wexford Borough Council (appointed 1936), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; and the very slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated tiered visual effect with those openings showing conservative neo-Georgian tripartite glazing patterns.