Survey Data
Reg No
22903409
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
209110, 90226
Date Recorded
05/01/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached twelve-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, c.1820, retaining original aspect with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed advanced porch, and incorporating outbuilding range to south with square-headed carriageway. Pitched roof with reed thatch having rope work to ridge, and rendered chimney stacks. Limewashed random rubble stone walls with slight batter. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, timber lintels, and timber fittings. Square-headed door opening in advanced porch with cut-stone lintel over, and timber boarded door. Square-headed door openings to outbuilding range to south with timber lintels, and timber boarded doors. Set back from road in own grounds with courtyard to front (west). (ii) Attached three-bay two-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1870, to north with single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting bay to right ground floor. Pitched slate roof (lean-to to projecting bay) with clay ridge tiles, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on squared rubble stone eaves. Unpainted random rubble stone walls (limewashed to projecting bay) with lime mortar. Square-headed window openings with no sills, timber lintels, and timber fittings. Square-headed door opening with timber boarded door. (iii) Attached two-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1870, to south. Reroofed, c.1920. Pitched roof with replacement corrugated-iron, c.1920, iron ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods. Limewashed random rubble stone walls. Square-headed door opening with timber lintel, and timber boarded door. (iv) Detached three-bay two-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1870, to south with pair of elliptical-headed carriageways to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Unpainted random rubble stone walls (limewashed to part ground floor) with lime mortar. Pair of elliptical-headed carriageways to ground floor with squared rubble stone voussoirs, and timber fittings. Square-headed door opening to centre first floor approached by stone steps with lintel, and timber boarded door. (v) Detached two-bay two-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1870, to south-west. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Limewashed random rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with remains of stone sills, timber lintels, and timber fittings. Square-headed door opening (including to first floor to side (north) elevation) with timber lintels, and timber boarded doors. (vi) Detached two-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1870, to west. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Limewashed random rubble stone walls. Square-headed window opening with timber fittings. Square-headed door opening with timber fittings. (vii) Detached single-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1870, to north (completing courtyard arrangement) with square-headed carriageway. Reroofed, c.1920. Pitched roof with painted replacement corrugated-iron, c.1920, iron ridge tiles, and remains of rainwater goods. Unpainted random rubble stone walls. Square-headed carriageway with lintel, and timber fittings.
Appraisal
A fine, extensive farmhouse of considerable importance for its contribution to the vernacular heritage of County Waterford. The farmhouse is distinguished in a county setting on account of its form and massing – the farmhouse measures over one hundred feet in length, accommodating residential and service ranges in one integrated unit. Reasonably well maintained, the farmhouse retains most of its original form and early fabric. An extensive collection of outbuildings, each unit of some vernacular significance, is traditionally arranged about an elongated courtyard, and contributes considerably to the historic character, and setting quality of the site.