Oldcourt

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built 1938, on a rectangular plan. Undergoing renovation, 2005. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Gritdashed roughcast walls on rendered plinth with rendered flush strips to corners supporting rendered band to eaves. Square-headed central door opening with concrete threshold, and concealed dressings with "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed canopy on consoles framing glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement casement windows. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (first floor) centred on square-headed window opening with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Set back from street in landscaped grounds on a corner site with roughcast piers to perimeter having stepped capping supporting looped wrought iron gate.

A house representing an integral component of the twentieth-century domestic built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a canopied doorcase; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated tiered visual effect with the principal "apartments" defined by curvilinear bay windows. Having ben 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 Saint John's Road.