Survey Data
Reg No
15703307
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
306414, 128677
Date Recorded
30/08/2007
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 gabled projecting windbreak. Vacant, 1987. "Restored", 2000. Now disused. Replacement hipped water reed thatch roof on oat or straw base on collared timber construction, exposed steel or wire stretchers to decorative raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Rendered battered walls. Segmental-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing reclaimed timber boarded door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings including some replacement lintels framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set perpendicular to road with cylindrical piers to perimeter having domed capping.
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 centred on a restructured windbreak; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a pronounced battered silhouette with a failing surface finish revealing evidence of "daub" or mud; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof latterly showing a degrading non-indigenous Turkish water reed thatch finish. A period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the historic or original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a farmhouse making a picturesque visual statement in a sylvan street scene.