Survey Data
Reg No
15703122
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
292693, 128338
Date Recorded
17/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Hipped or hipped gabled corrugated-iron roof with pressed iron ridges, and cast-iron rainwater goods on roughcast eaves. Roughcast battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings, concealed dressings framing boarded-up fittings with two-over-two timber sash windows to gables to side elevations having part exposed sash boxes. Set perpendicular to road with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron double gates.
Appraisal
A house identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of Galbally by such attributes as the alignment perpendicular to the road; the rectilinear lobby entry plan form; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a pronounced battered silhouette with a failing surface finish revealing sections of "daub" or mud; and the high pitched roof originally showing a thatch finish according to the "House and Building Return" Form of the National Census (NA 1901; NA 1911).