house

Attached three-bay two-storey house, built 1933, with box bay window to left ground floor, and square-headed carriageway to right ground floor. Hipped roof (hipped roof to bay window extending over door opening as canopy on rendered pier) with fibre-cement slate having chamfered corners, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having capping supporting terracotta pots, and iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Rendered walls to ground floor with stringcourse supporting roughcast walls to first floor. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills forming sill course to bay window, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with tiled step, and timber panelled door having sidelights. Square-headed carriageway to right ground floor to integral garage with glazed tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Set back from street in own grounds with roughcast boundary wall having coping, rendered piers having capping, and iron double gates [VO].

A pleasantly composed house representing an important element of the interwar development of the suburbs of Wexford Town by private speculators with features including an integral garage reflecting the burgeoning age of the automobile. Having been very well maintained to present an early aspect with the elementary 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 Road.