Plattinstown House

Detached four-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, built 1858, on a T-shaped plan originally three-bay single-storey centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1968. Pitched slate roof including gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves having timber consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Square-headed window opening in bipartite arrangement (porch) with timber mullion, and concealed dressings framing four-over-four timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings ("cheeks") with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled doors. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing four-over-four timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with cast-iron panelled piers to perimeter having finial-topped capping.

A house erected for George O'Grady (d. 1872) and Jane Stewart O'Grady (née Hore) (d. 1917) representing an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of north County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on an expressed porch; the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression with those openings showing pretty bipartite glazing patterns; and the miniature gablets 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 the composition. Furthermore, adjacent outbuildings (extant 1905) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble having subsequent connections with Lieutenant-Colonel George Meredyth Grogan DSO (1887-1942) and Eva Augusta Elizabeth Grogan (née Ellis) (1899-1974).