Lancaster House, County Wexford

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Detached two-bay four-storey double-pile townhouse, extant 1852, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Renovated, 1990-1, to accommodate alternative use. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber boarded box eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Repointed red brick Flemish bond wall to front (west) elevation on terracotta tiled chamfered plinth; rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed window openings originally in tripartite arrangement (ground floor) with cut-granite sills, and repointed red brick voussoirs framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows having overlights with two-over-over-two sidelights having overlights. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with sill course (first floor) or cut-granite sills (upper floors), and repointed red brick voussoirs framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six or three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with two cut-granite steps, doorcase with engaged Doric columns on padstones supporting iron-covered cornice on rosette-detailed "triglyph" frieze on entablature framing replacement glazed uPVC door. Set back from line of street with concrete footpath to front.

A townhouse representing an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Wexford (Lacy 1852, 299) with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form; the construction in red brick; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression with the principal "apartment" originally showing a tripartite variation on the so-called "Wexford Window" sash-and-overlight glazing pattern. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior: however, the introduction of replacement fittings to the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of a townhouse having historic connections with the Redmond family including Thomas Redmond (d. 1861), 'Tanner late of Wexford in the County of Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1861, 257); and Thomas Stanislaus Redmond (d. 1905), 'Gentleman late of Lancaster House Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1906, 438; cf. 157037--).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15502163

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