Survey Data
Reg No
15704822
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1822
Coordinates
311857, 111815
Date Recorded
24/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Attached four-bay single-storey lobby entry farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1822, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Occupied, 1911. Now disused. Pitched and hipped corrugated-iron roof with lichen-covered rendered ridge, rendered red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on limewashed eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Limewashed lime rendered battered wall to front (west) elevation; rendered, ruled and lined surface finish (remainder). Square-headed off-central door opening in round-headed recess with concealed dressings including timber lintel framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in unkempt grounds.
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an important component of the vernacular heritage of south County Wexford by such attributes as the compact rectilinear lobby entry plan form off-centred on a characteristic windbreak; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone displaying a battered silhouette; the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof originally showing a thatch finish according to an entry in the "House and Building Return" Form of the National Census (NA 1901; NA 1911). A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, including shimmering crown or cylinder glazing panels, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of a farmhouse cited as the birthplace of John James Murphy (1822-1909), later of Presidente Uriburo or "Murphy", Santa Fe Province, Argentina (Irish Argentine Historical Society 2003).