Survey Data
Reg No
15705203
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1842 - 1902
Coordinates
296755, 105512
Date Recorded
27/10/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1902, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Reroofed, ----. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat thatch rood with exposed hazel curvilinear stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, red brick Running bond off-central dwarf chimney stack on rendered base supporting terracotta pots, and paired exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening with concealed dressings including timber lintel framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in own grounds.
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the nineteenth-century vernacular heritage of the environs of Kilmore Quay by such attributes as the rectilinear lobby entry plan form off-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 somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a replenished oat thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, an adjacent "tin roofed" outbuilding (extant 1902) continues to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a neat self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.