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Terraced two-bay three-storey house with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gable (south) with red brick Running bond chimney stack to apex having stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered stepped eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (east) elevation with rusticated rendered piers to ends; rendered surface finish (remainder). Timber shopfront to ground floor. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) 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 built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact 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, both to the exterior and to the interior, including a Classically-detailed shopfront making a pleasing visual statement in Main Street South at street level. NOTE: Occupied (1901) by Philip Barker (d. 1901), 'Shopkeeper late of 36 South Main street Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1901, 14); and (1911) by Christina Agnes Barker (d. 1915), 'Shopkeeper late of South Main Street Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1915, 16; cf. 157037--).