Outbuilding in Gorey Corporation Lands, County Wexford

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Attached three- or four-bay single-storey outbuilding with half-attic, extant 1840, on an L-shaped plan; two-bay full-height side (north) elevation. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on roughcast eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast coursed rubble stone walls on rendered plinth with concealed red brick flush quoins to corners. Segmental-headed carriageway (south) with rendered flush surround framing corrugated-iron double doors. Square-headed window openings (north) with sills, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded fittings behind wrought iron bars. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

An outbuilding making a pleasing visual statement in John Street.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15601031

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