Enniscorthy Society of Friends' Meeting House

Attached three-bay double-height Society of Friends' meeting house, dated 1869, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey linking porch (west). Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables on cut-granite "Cavetto" kneelers, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered red brick header bond stepped eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls with rusticated cut-granite quoins to corners. Round-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing iron mesh panels over six-over-six timber sash windows having Y-tracery glazing bars. Paired round-headed window openings (gable ends) below cut-granite roundel date stones ("1869") with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing iron mesh panels over six-over-six timber sash windows having Y-tracery glazing bars. Segmental-headed door opening (porch) with two cut-granite steps, and moulded surround centred on keystone framing timber panelled double doors having overlight. Round-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and moulded surrounds framing iron mesh panels over four-over-four timber sash windows having Y-tracery glazing bars. Full-height interior with central aisle between timber pews, timber boarded wainscoting supporting carved timber dado rail, and stepped dais (north) supporting diagonal timber boarded panelled benches; (west): Attached five-bay two-storey Society of Friends' meeting house, built 1756, on a rectangular plan originally detached. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack (north) having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): small meeting room with chimneypiece; and (first floor) large meeting room with timber benches, timber boarded wainscoting supporting timber dado rail, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with lamp-topped cast-iron open work piers to perimeter on granite ashlar bases supporting cast-iron double gates.