Survey Data
Reg No
15703346
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
309598, 127567
Date Recorded
30/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-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. Renovated, ----. Reroofed, ----. Replacement hipped oat thatch roof with chicken wire-covered paired exposed hazel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, rendered central chimney stack having "Cavetto" stringcourse below capping, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Replacement roughcast battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening into farmhouse. Remodelled square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings to gables to side elevations with concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds.
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of County Wexford by such attributes as the rectilinear lobby entry plan form centred on an expressed, albeit later porch; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a pronounced 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); and the high pitched roof showing a replenished oat thatch finish.