Survey Data
Reg No
15702709
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1842 - 1901
Coordinates
307665, 137434
Date Recorded
18/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, occupied 1901, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Occupied, 1987. Now disused. Hipped oat thatch roof overhanging lean-to roofs to window openings to dormer attic with exposed bamboo stretchers to degraded ridge having exposed steel or wire scallops, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having stepped capping, and exposed bomboo stretchers to eaves having exposed steel or wire scallops. Roughcast battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening in segmental-headed recess with concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road.
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an important 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 somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a degraded oat thatch finish. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, 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 making a pleasing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in a rural village setting presently (2007) undergoing extensive "suburban" development.