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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built 1938, on a symmetrical plan with pair of canted bay windows to ground floor. One of a group of four. Hipped roof with profiled clay tile, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having capping supporting terracotta pots, and aluminium rainwater goods on timber eaves. Pebbledashed roughcast walls on rendered plinth with rendered stringcourse to first floor. Square-headed window openings (in tripartite arrangement to first floor) with concrete sills (forming sill courses to bay windows; forming part of stringcourse to first floor), and one-over-one timber sash windows (having margins to bay windows; one-over-one sidelights to tripartite openings) having overlights incorporating stained glass panels. Square-headed door opening with two steps, and glazed timber panelled door. Set back from street in own grounds with roughcast boundary wall having coping, roughcast piers having stepped capping, and iron double gates [VO].

A pleasantly composed house built as one of a group of four almost identical units (including 15502076) forming part of a larger collection of twelve houses (including 15502071 - 74) of modest to middle size established by a now-unrecorded private speculator representing an important element of the wartime or mid twentieth-century domestic architectural heritage on account of the contribution made to the expansion of the suburbs of Wexford Town. Having been very well maintained to present an early aspect with the original composition attributes surviving in place together with most of the original fabric, the house continues to make a positive contribution to the character or streetscape value of Saint John's Drive.