Survey Data
Reg No
15701712
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1700 - 1839
Coordinates
320507, 152513
Date Recorded
10/12/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, extant 1839, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak. Reroofed, ----. For sale, 2009. Replacement hipped water reed thatch roof on a T-shaped plan centred on hipped water reed thatch roof (windbreak), rendered exposed wire stretchers to raised ridge having blind scallops off-centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-door. Square-headed window openings with limewashed sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter supporting timber gates.
Appraisal
A house identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of County Wexford by such attributes as the rectilinear lobby entry plan form 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 latterly showing a non-indigenous Turkish water reed thatch finish.