Survey Data
Reg No
11903805
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1840 - 1908
Coordinates
282209, 186162
Date Recorded
29/10/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1908, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor; single-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey central return (south). Refenestrated, ----. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, repointed granite ashlar chimney stacks having beaded stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods with cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Coursed rough cut granite walls with cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window opening (porch) with cut-granite sill, and red brick block-and-start surround with cut-granite lintel framing replacement uPVC casement window. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds with cut-granite lintels framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds.
Appraisal
A farmhouse representing an integral component of the nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of County Kildare with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact symmetrical footprint centred on an expressed porch; the construction in a blue-grey granite with red brick and silver-grey granite dressings producing a mild polychromatic palette; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated tiered visual effect; and the high pitched roof. Having been well maintained, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior: however, the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of the composition. 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 rural street scene.