Survey Data
Reg No
15703349
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
310727, 127627
Date Recorded
05/10/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey thatched house, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Reroofed, ----. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat thatch roof with rope twist above paired exposed hazel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallop. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening in triangular-headed recess with concealed dressings including timber lintel framing timber boarded half-door. Square-headed flanking window openings with limewashed sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing timber casement windows. Road fronted with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting "sunburst" gate.
Appraisal
A house identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of the outskirts of Curracloe by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a characteristic windbreak; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a battered silhouette with a flaking surface finish revealing evidence of "daub" or mud; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a replenished oat thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house making a picturesque visual statement in a rural street scene.