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Terraced single- or two-bay two-storey local authority house, built 1912, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. One of a terrace of twelve. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gable (north) with rendered red brick Running bond chimney stack to apex having corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined wall (ground floor) with rendered corbelled stepped stringcourse; fine roughcast surface finish (first floor). Square-headed window openings (north) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing four-over-four timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening (south) with two concrete steps, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded door having overlight. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

A house erected as one of a terrace of twelve houses representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century domestic built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression; and the stepped roofline following the gradient or incline of the street. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in Hill Street.