Survey Data
Reg No
15704107
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
288403, 118042
Date Recorded
11/10/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Refenestrated, ----. Tarpaulin-covered hipped oat thatch roof with rendered off-central chimney stack having red brick stringcourse below capping. Roughcast battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed off-central door opening with concrete step threshold, and concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. 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 concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including off-central lobby with "spy hole". Set in courtyard.
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; 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 protected oat thatch finish (cf. 15612023; 15700723; 15701608; 15702208; 15702220; 15703326; 15703330; 15703753; 15703757).