Survey Data
Reg No
15704814
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
309118, 111848
Date Recorded
22/10/2007
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. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Part chicken wire-covered hipped oat thatch roof on collared timber construction with pressed iron-covered exposed wire stretchers to ridge having exposed wire scallops, rendered dwarf chimney stack having stringcourse below chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, and exposed wire stretchers to eaves having exposed wire scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls with limewashed rendered battered buttress to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed off-central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set perpendicular to road with rendered cylindrical piers to perimeter having conical capping supporting timber double gates.
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of south County Wexford by such attributes as the alignment perpendicular to the road; the rectilinear lobby entry plan form off-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 showing an oat thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, opposing limewashed outbuildings (extant 1840) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene. NOTE: Occupied (1901; 1911) by Murphy (----), 'Farmer' (NA 1901; NA 1911).