Survey Data
Reg No
15701717
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1700 - 1839
Coordinates
319985, 149034
Date Recorded
14/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Attached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak. Renovated, 1993. Reroofed, 2005. Chicken wire-covered replacement pitched and hipped oat thatch roof with paired exposed hazel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pot, and paired exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Replacement cement rendered battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings (south) or square-headed window opening originally in tripartite arrangement (north) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Road fronted on a corner site with rendered piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting timber gate.
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 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 somewhat 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 (2005) from The Heritage Council.