Survey Data
Reg No
22903112
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1810 - 1830
Coordinates
228687, 93947
Date Recorded
05/01/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, c.1820, retaining early fenestration. Renovated, c.1970, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch added. Hipped roof with reed thatch having rope work to ridge, and rendered squat chimney stack. Flat corrugated-iron roof to porch with rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast lime rendered walls over random rubble stone construction (possibly with sections of mud wall construction) with slight batter. Painted rendered walls to porch. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and 2/2 timber sash windows having wrought iron bars. Square-headed window openings to porch with concrete sills, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber door. Set back from road in own grounds with forecourt. (ii) Attached three-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1820, to south-east originally detached with single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting bay to right (south-east). Reroofed and extended, c.1920, comprising single-bay single-storey flat-roofed recessed linking bay to left (north-west). Pitched roof (continuing into lean-to to projecting bay) with painted replacement corrugated-iron, c.1920, iron ridge tiles, rendered coping, and no rainwater goods. Flat roof to linking bay not visible. Unpainted roughcast lime rendered walls. Square-headed window opening to linking bay with no sills, and fixed-pane timber fitting. Square-headed door openings with timber boarded doors. (iii) Detached two-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1820, to south with single-bay single-storey lean-to recessed end bay to left. Reroofed, c.1920. Pitched roof (lean-to to end bay) with painted replacement corrugated-iron, c.1920, iron ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Unpainted roughcast lime rendered walls. Square-headed window opening with no sill, and timber fitting. Square-headed door openings with timber boarded doors. (iv) Detached two-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1870, to south with square-headed carriageway. Reroofed, c.1945. Pitched roof with replacement corrugated-asbestos, c.1945, concrete ridge tiles, rendered coping, and no rainwater goods. Limewashed lime rendered walls. Square-headed window opening with shallow rendered sill, and timber fitting. Square-headed carriageway with replacement painted corrugated-iron door, c.1945. (v) Detached four-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1945, to south retaining original aspect. Now disused. Pitched corrugated-asbestos roof with concrete ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. (vi) Remains of detached two-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1820, to site. Now in ruins. Hipped thatched roof now gone. Limewashed lime rendered walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window opening with no sill, and 2/2 timber sash window having wrought iron bars. (vii) Detached two-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1945, to south-west with square-headed carriageway. Pitched corrugated-asbestos roof with concrete ridge tiles, rendered coping, and no rainwater goods. Unpainted rendered walls (possibly over mass-concrete construction). Square-headed aperture with no fittings. Square-headed carriageway with iron-sheeted double doors.
Appraisal
An extensive range of buildings of various periods of construction, which combine to produce a small-scale farm holding that forms an appealing feature in the locality. The farmhouse is particularly well maintained, and the long, low massing, the construction in locally-sourced materials, and the thatched roof all combine to identify the building as an important element of the vernacular heritage of County Waterford. The attendant outbuildings, including the remains of a further thatched range, contribute significantly to the group value and setting of the site.