Survey Data
Reg No
12401501
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1700 - 1839
Coordinates
260778, 162488
Date Recorded
26/10/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey thatched house, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan. Replacement pitched oat thatch roof with exposed hazel or willow lattice stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, dwarf chimney stack, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Rendered, ruled and lined battered walls; roughcast surface finish to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed door opening below timber fascia with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window opening with sill, and concealed dressings framing timber casement window behind wrought iron bars. Square-headed window openings with sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes behind wrought iron bars. Road fronted.
Appraisal
A house identified as an important component of the vernacular heritage of County Kilkenny by such attributes as the rectilinear plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone displaying a feint battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a replenished oat thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.