Survey Data
Reg No
15621021
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
296743, 103531
Date Recorded
27/10/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. Refenestrated, 1987. Undergoing repair, 2007. Hipped or hipped gabled oat thatch roof undergoing repair with red brick Running bond central chimney stack. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening into house. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Set perpendicular to road with limewashed piers to perimeter having rendered capping supporting timber double gates.
Appraisal
A house identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of Kilmore Quay by such attributes as the alignment perpendicular to the road; the lobby entry plan form centred on a later porch; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a battered silhouette with a spalling surface finish revealing evidence of "daub" or mud; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing an oat thatch finish presently (2007) undergoing replenishment: meanwhile, a pronounced masonry break clearly illustrates the continued linear development of the house in the later nineteenth century. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric: the introduction of replacement fittings to the openings, however, has not had a beneficial impact on the external expression or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, an adjacent limewashed outbuilding (extant 1902) continues to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a quayside village street scene.