Rosbercon House

Detached three-bay two-storey double-pile house, c.1900, with two-bay two-storey side elevations. Refenestrated. Hipped double-pile slate roofs on a U-shaped plan incorporating part conical section to north-west with clay ridge tiles, replacement rendered chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered channelled piers to corners, and (full-height) bowed chamfer to north-west. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door opening with applied doorcase having fluted pilasters supporting frieze, triangular pediment having decorative detailing to tympanum, and replacement glazed timber panelled door. Set back from line of street in own grounds perpendicular to road with roughcast boundary wall.

An elegantly appointed house of the middle size representing an element of the late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century domestic architectural heritage of Rosbercon (New Ross) with pleasing attributes identifying an understated architectural design aesthetic including the symmetrical configuration centred on an applied doorcase, the slightly disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing establishing a dignified quality in the composition, the rendered accents producing a muted Classical theme, the clever incorporation of a bowed chamfer accommodating an encroached site, and so on. However, the replacement fittings introduced to most of the openings have not had a beneficial impact on the external expression of a house occupying a prominent position on an elevated site in the streetscape.