Survey Data
Reg No
15700720
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1813 - 1840
Coordinates
321747, 164950
Date Recorded
27/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached six-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan originally five-bay two-storey on a symmetrical plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Hipped fibre-cement slate roof with lichen-spotted ridge tiles, paired red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on limewashed slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Limewashed roughcast walls on rendered plinth; cement rendered surface finish to rear (south) elevation. Segmental-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in own grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having stepped capping supporting barley twist-detailed flat iron gate.
Appraisal
A farmhouse representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of north County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one erected by or for the proprietor of an adjacent mill (1813) marked on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1840; published 1841), suggested by such attributes as the symmetrical footprint centred on a restrained doorcase; and the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression: meanwhile, aspects of the composition clearly illustrate the continued linear development of the farmhouse at the turn of the twentieth century. Having been reasonably well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a farmhouse having historic connections with the Hanlon family including David Hanlon (d. 1913), 'Miller [and] Farmer late of Castletown Inch County Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1913, 272).