Wells House

Country house in Wexford, Ireland, dating from 1830–1850

Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement country house with dormer attic, designed 1835-45; built 1836-45, on a H-shaped plan with single-bay full-height gabled advanced end bays centred on single-bay full-height gabled projecting breakfront; seven-bay two-storey rear (east) elevation with single-bay full-height gabled advanced end bays. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1927. "Conveyed", 1939. Resold, 1965. For sale, 2007. Sold, 2008. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on a H-shaped plan including gablets to window opening to dormer attic centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront), pressed or rolled lead ridges, clustered red brick Running bond chimney stacks having lichen-spotted cut-granite chamfered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, lichen-spotted roll moulded cut-granite coping to gables on "Cavetto"-detailed thumbnail beaded kneelers with octagonal finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves on "Cavetto"-detailed thumbnail beaded consoles retaining cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Red brick Flemish bond walls on lichen-spotted cut-granite chamfered cushion course on red brick Flemish bond base. Tudor-headed central door opening approached by flight of four cut-granite steps with cut-granite step threshold, and quatrefoil-detailed cut-granite surround having engaged colonette-detailed moulded reveals with hood moulding ov

Type:

Country house

Period:

1830–1850

Where:

Wexford, Ireland

Coordinates:

52.53°N, 6.35°W

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