Survey Data
Reg No
15702734
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
313258, 135308
Date Recorded
23/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. "Improved", ----, producing present composition. Renovated, ----. Replacement hipped water reed thatch roof overhanging lean-to roofs to window openings to dormer attic with paired exposed wire stretchers to raised ridge having blind scallops, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having stepped capping, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Roughcast battered wall to front (south) elevation with rendered flush strips to ends supporting rendered band to eaves; replacement cement rendered surface finish (remainder) bellcast over rendered plinth. Hipped square-headed central door opening in camber- or segmental-headed recess with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and rendered flush surrounds framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in own grounds with part stone cobbled forecourt.
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of County Wexford by such attributes as the compact rectilinear lobby entry plan form centred on an expressed, albeit later porch; 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 latterly showing a non-indigenous Turkish water reed thatch finish. Furthermore, adjacent limewashed outbuildings (extant 1840) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a neat self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.