Survey Data
Reg No
15621014
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
296766, 103528
Date Recorded
27/10/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Attached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Renovated, ----, to accommodate occasional use. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped or hipped gabled water reed thatch roof with exposed hazel lattice stretchers to degraded straw ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered central chimney stack having red brick capping supporting terracotta pot, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement six-over-six sash windows having exposed sash boxes. Road fronted.
Appraisal
A house identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of Kilmore Quay by such attributes as the compact rectilinear lobby entry plan form centred on a characteristic windbreak; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a battered silhouette with sections of "daub" or mud suggested by an entry in the "House and Building Return" Form of the National Census (NA 1901; NA 1911); the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof latterly showing a non-indigenous Turkish water reed thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original or replicated fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of a neat self-contained group alongside an adjoining house (see 15621013) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a quayside village street scene.