Survey Data
Reg No
15704549
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1842 - 1902
Coordinates
285124, 107786
Date Recorded
14/10/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three- or four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1902, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. "Restored", 1991. Replacement hipped water reed thatch roof on a T-shaped plan on collared timber construction centred on pitched (gabled) water reed thatch roof (windbreak) with chicken wire-covered exposed hazel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta octagonal pots, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Rendered, ruled and lined battered walls; rendered battered buttress to rear (south) elevation. Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber boarded half-door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in landscaped grounds perpendicular to lane with cylindrical piers to perimeter having conical capping supporting timber boarded double gates.
Appraisal
A house identified as an integral component of the nineteenth-century vernacular heritage of south County Wexford by such attributes as the alignment perpendicular to the lane; the 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 somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof latterly showing a non-indigenous Turkish water reed thatch finish.