Survey Data
Reg No
15702042
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Hill View
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
303246, 142557
Date Recorded
21/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak. Renovated, 2005. Replacement hipped water reed thatch roof with paired exposed steel or wire stretchers to rendered raised ridge having blind scallops, red brick Running bond chimney stack having rendered chamfered capping, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls with limewashed rendered buttress to front (south) elevation. Square-headed off-central door opening with concrete threshold, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows replacing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set perpendicular to road.
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of County Wexford by such attributes as the alignment perpendicular to the road; 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); and the high pitched roof latterly showing a non-indigenous Turkish water reed thatch finish. Furthermore, an adjacent "tin roofed" outbuilding (extant 1903) continues to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a neat self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural village street scene.