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Attached two-bay three-storey house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan originally detached with shopfront to ground floor; single-bay (single-bay deep) three-storey return (west). Vacant, 1901. Occupied, 1911. Renovated, ----. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof; pitched fibre-cement slate roof (west), clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (east) elevation with rusticated rendered quoins to ends; roughcast surface finish (remainder) originally slate hung. Timber shopfront to ground floor. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (top floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing three-over-six timber sash windows. Quay fronted on a corner site 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 rectilinear 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 quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including a traditional Irish shopfront of artistic interest: however, the piecemeal introduction of replacement fittings to the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in a setting presently (2005) undergoing extensive redevelopment.