Survey Data
Reg No
22903705
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1841
Coordinates
208725, 82220
Date Recorded
24/09/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, extant 1841, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. Hipped water reed thatch roof with exposed lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Rendered battered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having exposed sash boxes. Set in own grounds with roughcast piers to perimeter having precast concrete chamfered capping supporting wrought iron-detailed double gates.
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an important component of the vernacular heritage of County Waterford by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone displaying a battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a thatch finish. Furthermore, an 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 rural street scene.