Survey Data
Reg No
12313003
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1815 - 1835
Coordinates
261458, 148588
Date Recorded
19/05/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, c.1825, with five-bay single-storey lateral wing to left. Part refenestrated, c.1875. Part reroofed and refenestrated, c.1925. Pitched slate roofs (replacement artificial slate, c.1925, to main block) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Ivy-clad unpainted roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings (one in tripartite arrangement to wing) with cut-stone sills, replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1925, to ground floor having margins, replacement two-over-two timber sash windows, c.1875, to remainder retaining six-over-six (ground floor) and six-over-three (first floor) timber sash windows to side (east) elevation having six-over-three timber sash window to tripartite opening with two-over-one sidelights. Square-headed door opening with cut-granite flush surround, and glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed door opening to wing with two cut-limestone steps, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Interior with timber panelled shutters to some window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with random rubble stone retaining wall to avenue having unpainted rendered piers, and iron gate. (ii) Detached two-bay single-storey stable building, c.1875. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and iron rainwater goods on squared rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls (originally rendered) with unpainted roughcast walls to side elevations. Square-headed door openings with tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-doors. (iii) Detached five-bay single-storey split-level (three-bay to north; two-bay to south) outbuilding, c.1875, with single-bay single-storey side elevations having elliptical-headed carriageway to north. Pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, and iron rainwater goods on rendered squared rubble stone eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with no sills, timber lintels, and timber fittings. Elliptical-headed carriageway with tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overpanel.
Appraisal
Retaining most of the original form and massing together with substantial quantities of the historic fabric both to the exterior and to the interior a farmhouse of modest architectural pretensions forms an important element of the early nineteenth-century architectural heritage of Dungarvan: attributes including a simple doorcase, the variety of glazing patterns to the window openings, and so on all enliven the external expression of the house. Meanwhile the survival of a range of attendant outbuildings of somewhat rustic quality enhances the group and setting values of the site in the landscape.