Survey Data
Reg No
15620008
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
298334, 106544
Date Recorded
21/10/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed windbreak. Renovated, 1989. Reroofed, 2004. For sale, 2010. Replacement hipped or hipped gables oat thatch roof with rope twist above exposed hazel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central dwarf chimney stack having red brick capping, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Replacement cement rendered battered walls with cement rendered buttress to front (west) elevation. Square-headed off-central door opening with concrete threshold, and concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to "cottage garden" having truncated pyramidal capping supporting iron gate.
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of south County Wexford by such attributes as the rectilinear lobby entry plan form off-centred on a characteristic windbreak; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a battered silhouette with sections of "daub" or mud suggested by an entry in the "House and Building Return" Form of the National Census (NA 1901; NA 1911); the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing an oat thatch finish replenished with the financial assistance of a grant (2004) from The Heritage Council. Furthermore, adjacent "tin roofed" outbuildings (extant 1840) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a neat self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.