Survey Data
Reg No
15703245
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
301593, 132275
Date Recorded
29/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Reroofed, ----. Replacement hipped water reed thatch roof with exposed steel stretchers to decorative raised ridge having blind scallops, cement rendered off-central chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pot, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set perpendicular to road with rendered piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron "farm gate".
Appraisal
A house identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of County Wexford by such attributes as the alignment perpendicular to the road; the compact 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 disproporationate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof latterly showing a non-indigenous Turkish water reed thatch finish.