Survey Data
Reg No
22902102
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1841
Coordinates
212643, 99305
Date Recorded
08/10/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, extant 1841, on a rectangular plan. Renovated, ----. Hipped water reed thatch roof with exposed hazel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered central chimney stack, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Replacement cement rendered battered walls. Square-headed door opening with concrete step threshold, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door. Paired square-headed (west) or square-headed (east) window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one (west) or two-over-two (east) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road with concrete block piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting wrought iron double gates.
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of County Waterford by such attributes as the rectilinear plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone displaying a feint battered silhouette; the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a thatch finish. 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.