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Terraced three-bay (single-bay deep) three-storey house with dormer attic, dated 1840, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor. Vacant, 1901; 1911. One of a group of three originally forming part of a terrace of six. Pitched and hipped fibre-cement slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having paired stringcourses below capping, rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves on beaded cornice retaining cast-iron hopper and square profile downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls (upper floors) with ogee-detailed moulded rendered cornice (first floor) on blind frieze on stringcourse. Rosette-detailed shopfront to ground floor including elliptical-headed door opening (east) framing replacement timber fittings having fanlight. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite chamfered sill course, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (top floor) with ogee-detailed sill course, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (upper floors): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled reveals or shutters. Street fronted on a corner site with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

A house representing an important component of the mid nineteenth-century built heritage of Enniscorthy with the architectural value of the composition, one illustrating 'the period of renaissance in Enniscorthy' when the Portsmouth estate 'set plots of ground for building...at very low rents and on the longest leases provided good buildings were erected on such plots' (Hickey alias Doyle 1868, 117), confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the so-called "Enniscorthy Shopfront" demonstrating good quality workmanship in a silver-grey granite; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated tiered visual effect; and the high pitched roof. Having been well maintained, the 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 Market Square.