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House on Commercial Quay

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House on Commercial Quay
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Originally house; recorded by the architectural inventory as shop/retail outlet
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Attached two-bay (two-bay deep) four-storey house, extant 1840, on a square plan with shopfront to ground floor. Hipped and pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks (north) having rendered capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered…

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Attached two-bay (two-bay deep) four-storey house, extant 1840, on a square plan with shopfront to ground floor. Hipped and pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks (north) having rendered capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered red brick header bond stepped eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to corners (first floor) supporting "Cavetto"-detailed cornice on rosette-detailed frieze. Remodelled rendered shopfront to ground floor centred on timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Quay fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front.
A house representing an integral component of the built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact square plan form; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression with those openings once showing Classically-detailed ""stucco"" dressings (cf. 15503015); and the high pitched roof. NOTE: A photograph by Robert French (1841-1917) illustrates the shopfront emblazoned ""FREDERIC WOOD SEED MERCHANT"" (NLI L_ROY_04432) while a later photograph (November 1904) by A.H. Poole (----) of Waterford illustrates the premises rebranded as ""St. IBERIUS CATHOLIC CLUB"" (NLI POOLEWP 0469).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15503014

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  • Brady Shipman Martin; photographer not stated, Brady Shipman Martin
  • Maker not stated on source page, travelata.ru
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