Survey Data
Reg No
15605199
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
272164, 127476
Date Recorded
21/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Attached three-bay two-storey farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan; two-bay full-height rear (west) elevation. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Now disused. Corrugated-iron-covered pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with cement rendered chimney stacks to apexes having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to ends; coursed rubble stone wall to rear (west) elevation with red brick flush quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening with limestone flagged threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling, staircase on a dog leg plan with timber "match stick" baluster supporting carved timber banister terminating in turned timber newel, and carved timber surrounds to door openings to landings framing timber panelled doors; reception room (south) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surround to window opening framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, chimneypiece, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; reception room (north) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing replacement timber panelled door with carved timber surround to window opening framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, chimneypiece, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A farmhouse representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of New Ross with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a featureless doorcase; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the high pitched roofline. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior where contemporary joinery; restrained chimneypieces; and sleek plasterwork refinements, all highlight the modest artistic potential of a farmhouse making a pleasing visual statement in Bewley Street. NOTE: Occupied (1901; 1911) by James O'Farrell (----), 'Farmer' (NA 1901; NA 1911), and his spinster sisters Frances "Fanny" O'Farrell (d. 1909) and Ellen O'Farrell (d. 1917) 'late of 40 Bewley Street New Ross County Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1910, 509; 1917, 609).