Survey Data
Reg No
31308904
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1838
Coordinates
109831, 279425
Date Recorded
13/12/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1838, originally three-bay single-storey. Extended, pre-1923, producing present composition. "Restored", 2001/2[?], to accommodate occasional use. For sale, 2012. Replacement pitched reed thatch roof with exposed lattice stretchers to decorative raised ridge having blind scallops, cement rendered dwarf chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pot, and concrete or rendered coping to gables. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed window openings with limewashed sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-doors. Interior including kitchen retaining hearth. Road fronted with gravel verge to front.
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of Killavally by such attributes as the direct entry plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone displaying a feint battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a replenished thatch finish: meanwhile, a comparison of the second (surveyed 1895; published 1897) and third (surveyed 1923; published 1930) editions of the Ordnance Survey clearly illustrates the continued linear development of the composition in the early twentieth century.