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Terraced three-bay two-storey house, extant 1904, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. One of a terrace of five. Pitched slate roof with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Roughcast walls bellcast on rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening with step threshold, and cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement (ground floor) or two-over-two timber sash (first floor) windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A house erected as one of a terrace of five houses (including 15601083) representing an integral component of the nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Gorey with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a restrained doorcase regarded as an increasingly endangered hallmark of Gorey (cf. 15601043; 15601051); and the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in Wexford Street.