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Semi-detached two-bay two-storey house, built 1923, on a square plan. Refenestrated, ----. One of a pair. Pitched diagonal fibre-cement slate roof with ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on concrete cornice on "Cavetto"-detailed consoles on concrete stringcourse retaining cast-iron downpipe. Tuck pointed snecked "Old Red Sandstone" walls on concrete chamfered plinth with rusticated concrete quoins to corners. Round-headed door opening approached by two concrete steps, concrete block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings (first floor) including paired square-headed window openings (west) with concrete sills, and concrete block-and-start surrounds centred on keystones framing replacement aluminium casement windows replacing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set back from line of street on a slightly elevated site with cast-iron colonette piers to perimeter having ball finial-topped polygonal capping supporting wrought iron gate.

A house erected as one of a pair of houses (including 15502045) 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 near-square plan form; the construction in a ruby-coloured "Old Red Sandstone" offset by concrete dressings producing a muted two-tone palette; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression with the principal "apartment" or reception room defined by a Classically-detailed polygonal bay window; and the monolithic concrete work 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: however, the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in West Gate.