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Terraced single-bay three-storey house, extant 1903, on a rectangular plan. One of a terrace of five. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack (west) having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (north) elevation on rendered plinth with rusticated rendered piers to ends. Square-headed door opening (west) with cut-granite threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A house erected as one of a terrace of five houses (including 15502002) representing an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century domestic 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 substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in Skeffington Street.