Historic building

Terraced three-bay two-storey cottage, dated 1874. One of a group of thirteen. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stacks having profiled capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Whitewashed (limewashed) fine roughcast lime rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, six-over-six (ground floor) and three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1950, having margins. Set back from line of street with whitewashed (limewashed) random rubble stone boundary wall to forecourt having rubble stone piers incorporating red brick dressings supporting iron gate [DS].

A picturesque small-scale cottage purpose-built by a now-forgotten patron ("J.R.") as one of a group of thirteen units (including 15607001 - 10, 12 - 13) intended, according to local tradition, for local fishermen setting out from the adjacent Wexford Harbour or for employees at the nearby Wexford Town Railway Station (see 15500034) opened in the same year (1874) by the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) Company. Having been very well maintained, the cottage presents an early aspect with the simple architectural attributes surviving in place together with most of the historic fabric, thereby upholding the character of a collective ensemble producing a slight arc contributing picturesquely to the modest, almost vernacular streetscape quality in Carcur.