Survey Data
Reg No
15621024
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
296801, 103618
Date Recorded
30/10/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey projecting porch. Refenestrated, 1988. Reroofed, ----. Replacement hipped or hipped gabled water reed thatch roof on a T-shaped plan centred on hipped water reed thatch roof (porch) with chicken wire-covered exposed hazel lattice stretchers to decorative raised ridge having exposed scallops, red brick Running bond central chimney stack having red brick capping supporting terracotta octagonal pot, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening into house. Remodelled square-headed flanking window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Set back from line of road with limewashed piers to perimeter having rendered domed capping supporting flat iron gate.
Appraisal
A house identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of Kilmore Quay by such attributes as the rectilinear lobby entry plan form centred on a later porch; 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); and the high pitched roof latterly showing a non-indigenous Turkish water reed thatch finish: however, a comprehensive renovation programme involving the substitution of much of the original fabric has not had a beneficial impact on the external expression or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in a quayside village street scene.