Lisheen in Townparks, house in County Wexford

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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built 1938, on an L-shaped plan with canted bay window to right ground floor, and single-bay two-storey gabled projecting bay to left having canted bay window to ground floor. One of a pair. Hipped roof (gabled to projecting bay) with profiled clay tile, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gable having finial to apex, and aluminium rainwater goods on timber eaves. Rendered walls to ground floor with stepped stringcourse incorporating stepped cornices to bay windows supporting roughcast walls to first floor. Square-headed window openings (paired to first floor) with concrete sills forming sill courses to bay windows, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with clay-tiled step, rendered piers forming 'canted open porch' supporting concrete coping, and glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Set back from street in own grounds with roughcast boundary wall having coping, roughcast piers having stepped capping, and iron double gates [VO].

A pleasantly composed house built as one of a pair of identical or almost identical units (second in pair not included in survey) forming part of a larger collection of twelve houses (including 15502071, 73 - 76) of modest to middle size established by a now-unrecorded private speculator representing an important element of the wartime or mid twentieth-century domestic architectural heritage on account of the contribution made to the expansion of the suburbs of Wexford Town. Having been very well maintained to present an early aspect with the original composition attributes surviving in place together with most of the original fabric, the house continues to make a positive contribution to the character or streetscape value of Saint John's Drive.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15502072

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