Survey Data
Reg No
11902604
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1837
Coordinates
264042, 205969
Date Recorded
03/12/2002
Date Updated
--/--/--
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1837, on an L-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey windbreak abutting single-bay single-storey projecting end bay; two-bay single-storey rear (north) elevation. Hipped and pitched oat thatch roof on an L-shaped plan, rope twist ridge with paired exposed stretchers having exposed scallops, rendered dwarf central chimney stack having chamfered capping, and exposed stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Roughcast battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set perpendicular to lane with roughcast piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting wrought iron "farm gate".
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an important component of the vernacular heritage of County Kildare by such attributes as the alignment perpendicular to the lane; the angular 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 showing an oat straw thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, an adjacent "tin roofed" outbuilding (----) continues to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble making a picturesque visual statement in a rural street scene.