Survey Data
Reg No
12404504
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1700 - 1839
Coordinates
252404, 113765
Date Recorded
30/11/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan originally attached with single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak. Hipped or hipped gabled and pitched water reed thatch roof with chicken wire-covered exposed lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, concrete or rendered coping to gable (north) with rendered dwarf chimney stack to apex having corbelled stepped capping, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Roughcast battered wall to front (east) elevation on rendered plinth with rendered flush strips to corners; rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed door opening (north) with concealed dressings framing timber boarded half-door. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and rendered flush surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road with roughcast-panelled rendered chamfered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron gate.
Appraisal
A house identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of south County Kilkenny by such attributes as the compact rectilinear lobby entry plan form; the construction in unrefined fieldstone displaying a feint battered silhouette; the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a water reed 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, adjacent "tin roofed" outbuildings (----) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.