Browne's, house in County Wexford

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Attached nine-bay two-storey house, extant 1904, on a rectangular plan including single-bay two-storey (south) or seven-bay two-storey (east) elevations with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rusticated rendered walls (ground floor); rendered, ruled and lined surface finish (first floor). Rendered shopfront on a symmetrical plan centred on moulded rendered surround framing timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and rendered surrounds with "Guilloche"-detailed panelled pilasters supporting dentilated "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed hood mouldings on "Acanthus" consoles framing three-over-three timber sash windows. Interior including (first floor): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled reveals or shutters. Street fronted on a corner site with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

A house representing an important component of the nineteenth-century built heritage of Gorey with the architectural value of the composition confirmed by such attributes as the elongated rectilinear plan form negotiating the corner via a curvilinear bow (cf. 15601027; 15601124); and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression with those openings showing sleek "stucco" refinements. 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, including a 'well painted flowery Italianate [shopfront] with Corinthian pilasters' making a pleasing visual statement in Main Street at street level (Craig and Garner 1973, 19).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15601021

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