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Terraced three-bay three-storey house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan; three-bay three-storey rear (north) elevation. Part refenestrated, ----. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with red brick Running bond (west) or rendered (east) chimney stacks to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered piers to ends. Square-headed off-central door opening with threshold, and moulded surround centred on roll-topped keystone framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (north) elevation with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A house representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; and 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: however, the localised introduction of replacement fittings to the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the external expression or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in John Street Lower.