house

Terraced three-bay three-storey house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, fine roughcast chimney stack (east) having stringcourse below stepped capping, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (north) elevation; fine roughcast surface finish (remainder). Timber shopfront to ground floor on an asymmetrical plan with glazed timber panelled double doors having gilded overlight. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (first floor) or three-over-six (top floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (upper floors): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

A house representing an integral component of the built heritage of Enniscorthy with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the high pitched roof. Having been well maintained, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including a Classically-detailed shopfront showing gilded Cló Gaelach or "Old Irish Lettering" proclaiming "Labartar Béarla Annso" or "English Spoken Here".