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Attached single-bay three-storey house, dated 1802, on a rectangular plan; four-bay three-storey side (north) elevation. Renovated, 1912, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Refenestrated, 1998. Hipped (west) and pitched (east) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Timber shopfront to ground floor. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Street fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front.

A house representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century built heritage of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the rectilinear plan form; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the historic or original fabric including a traditional Irish shopfront of artistic interest: however, the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the external expression or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in Selskar Street.