Survey Data
Reg No
15704861
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
310993, 107639
Date Recorded
23/10/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey projecting porch. Reroofed, 2004. Part chicken wire-covered hipped oat thatch roof on a T-shaped plan centred on hipped oat thatch roof with bobbin-ended rope twist above paired exposed hazel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central chimney stack having red brick stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls to front (north) elevation; roughcast surface finish (remainder). Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road with limewashed cylindrical piers to perimeter having shallow conical capping supporting looped flat iron gate.
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of Lady's Island by such attributes as the rectilinear lobby entry plan form centred on an expressed, albeit later porch; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing an oat thatch finish replenished with the financial assistance of a grant (2004) from The Heritage Council. 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, adjacent "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 lakeside village street scene.