house

Terraced three-bay three-storey house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor. Part refenestrated, ----. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack (south) having stringcourse below corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Timber shopfront to ground floor on a symmetrical plan centred on timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows (first floor) or replacement uPVC casement windows (top floor). Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A house representing an integral component of the built heritage of Enniscorthy with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; and the very slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including a symmetrically-composed 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 Templeshannon.