Survey Data
Reg No
15704701
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
297420, 112712
Date Recorded
20/10/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed windbreak. Occupied, 1990. Vacated, 2001. Now disused. Remains of chicken wire-covered hipped oat thatch roof on collared split bough construction, exposed hazel stretchers to degraded ridge having exposed scallops, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed rendered battered. Square-headed off-central door opening with concrete threshold, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two (ground floor) or three-over-six (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes with two-over-two timber sash windows to gables to side elevations; two-over-two timber sash windows to rear (north) elevation having part exposed sash boxes. Set in courtyard with limewashed rendered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting replacement tubular mild steel "farm gate".
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an important component of the vernacular heritage of south County Wexford by such attributes as the rectilinear lobby entry plan form off-centred on a characteristic windbreak; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a battered silhouette with a failing surface finish revealing evidence of "daub" or mud; the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a degraded oat thatch finish. Furthermore, "tin roofed" outbuildings (extant 1903) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a neat self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.