Survey Data
Reg No
15704869
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
306797, 108606
Date Recorded
23/10/2007
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. "Restored", 2003. Part chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat thatch roof with exposed hazel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central chimney stack having concrete capping, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls with limewashed rendered battered buttress to rear (east) elevation. Square-headed off-central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (dormer attic) timber sash windows. Set back from line of road on a corner site with limewashed cylindrical piers to perimeter having rendered domed capping supporting tubular steel "farm gate".
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of south County Wexford by such attributes as the 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 a replenished oat thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of original or sympathetically replicated fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a farmhouse forming part of a self-contained group alongside an opposing farmhouse (see 15704868) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.