House on Nunnery Road, Wexford

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Detached three-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1911. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, lichen-spotted rendered coping to gables with yellow brick Running bond chimney stacks to apexes having precast concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, rooflights to rear (east) pitch, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Segmental-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from line of street with yellow brick Running bond piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron gate.

A house representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of Enniscorthy with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a restrained doorcase; and the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary forma and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in Nunnery Road.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15603008

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