
Overview
workshop — Mary Street is recorded as workshop in Waterford. Terraced five-bay double-height building, c.1925, retaining original fenestration. Pitched corrugated-asbestos roof with concrete ridge tiles, square Perspex rooflights, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Terraced five-bay double-height building, c.1925, retaining original fenestration.
People and work
The saved account records: Pitched corrugated-asbestos roof with concrete ridge tiles, square Perspex rooflights, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves.
How it changed
The saved account records: Unpainted roughcast walls with unpainted rendered panels between openings.
What survives
The saved account records: Square-headed window openings with shared rendered surround and intermediary panels.
Why it mattered
workshop — Mary Street matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This building, which appears to present an early aspect, is of significance representing the continued development of a commercial and industrial centre at the west end of Waterford City in the mid twentieth century. The building is a symmetrical composition that alludes to a Modern style in the arrangement and detailing of the openings. The building retains important salient features and materials, including increasingly-rare steel windows. The building is an attractive component of the streetscape of Mary Street and forms a contrast to the primarily residential nature of the building stock of that street. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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