Survey Data
Reg No
15704828
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
312939, 111370
Date Recorded
22/10/2007
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 projecting porch. Refenestrated, ----. Reroofed, ----. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat thatch roof with exposed hazel lattice stretchers to decorative raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central chimney stack having red brick corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings including lintels framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with limewashed cylindrical piers to perimeter having conical capping supporting flat iron "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; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a battered silhouette with a disintegrating 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 replenished oat thatch finish.