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Terraced two-bay four-storey house, c.1850, possibly over basement incorporating fabric of earlier house, pre-1840, on site. Renovated and refenestrated with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor. One of a group of eight. Pitched (shared) slate roof with red brick Running bond (shared) chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement timber casement windows. Replacement timber shopfront to ground floor with pilasters, fixed-pane display window, glazed timber panelled door, timber panelled door to house, fascia having gabled fluted consoles, and dentilated cornice. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

A well composed house of the middle size built as one of group of eight units (including 15605001, 40 - 41) representing an element of the redevelopment of the centre of New Ross in the mid nineteenth century. Exhibiting a pleasing, if understated design aesthetic, the architectural value of the house is established by attributes including the slender vertical emphasis of the massing, the slight diminishing in scale of the openings in the Classical manner producing a graduated or tiered visual effect, the sparse surface detailing, and so on. Although the subject of a comprehensive renovation programme in the late twentieth century, the elementary composition nevertheless prevails together with a quantity of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby continuing to make a beneficial impact on the streetscape value of Quay Street.