Jenville, house in County Wexford

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Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1904; occupied 1911, on a symmetrical plan. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks on rendered bases having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber box eaves having paired beaded consoles. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Segmental-headed central door opening with cast-iron bootscrapers centred on step threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having one-over-one sidelights centred on one-over-one timber sash window (first floor). Set back from line of street with rendered piers to perimeter having stringcourses below shallow pyramidal capping supporting pierced quatrefoil-detailed cast-iron gate.

A house representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century domestic built heritage of Gorey with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a restrained doorcase; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression with the principal "apartments" defined by polygonal bay windows; and the coupled timber work embellishing the roofline. 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, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in North Parade.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15601023

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