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Terraced two-bay three-storey house, extant 1941, on a rectangular plan. Renovated, ----, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on yellow brick header bond stepped eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Red brick Common bond wall (upper floors) with yellow brick flush quoins to ends. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-granite sills on yellow brick consoles, and yellow brick crow stepped block-and-start surrounds framing one-over-one (first floor) or two-over-two (top floor) timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A house representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling a contemporary office building on the corner of Main Street North and Monck Street (see 15502007), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the construction in a vibrant red brick with yellow brick dressings producing an eye-catching two-tone palette; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression.