Survey Data
Reg No
15704865
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
311977, 107806
Date Recorded
28/01/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three- or five-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay full-height breakfront on a half-octagonal plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Renovated, ----. Now disused. Chicken wire-covered hipped gabled thatch roof on a T-shaped plan centred on half-octagonal slate roof (breakfront), exposed hazel lattice stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, paired cement rendered central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Rendered battered walls on rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to corners. Square-headed central door opening in pointed segmental-headed recess with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed uPVC door. Square-headed flanking window openings with shallow sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an important component of the vernacular heritage of the environs of Lady's Island by such attributes as the rectilinear plan form centred on a polygonal breakfront; 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 disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric: however, the introduction of replacement fittings to the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the external expression or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, adjacent "tin roofed" outbuildings (----) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene. NOTE: Occupied by John Pierce (d. 1898) and Ellen Pierce (d. 1909) 'late of Ballyknockan Broadway County Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1898, 406; 1909, 489); and (1911) by Gregory Devereux (----), 'Farmer' (NA 1911).