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End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, moss-covered coping to gable (west) with red brick Running bond chimney stack to apex having stringcourse below capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined battered walls; part creeper- or ivy-covered lime rendered surface finish to rear (south) elevation. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two (ground floor) or six-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings to rear (south) elevation with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Street fronted on a corner site with tarmacadam footpath to front.

A house representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of New Ross with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the feint battered silhouette; and the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the uniform or near-uniform proportions of the openings on each floor. 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, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained ensemble (including 15605194) making a pleasing visual statement in Mary Street Upper.