Survey Data
Reg No
15700605
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1839
Coordinates
308215, 163048
Date Recorded
27/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey double-pile farmhouse, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay two-storey single-pile. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1997. Renovated, 1999, producing present composition. Replacement pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Replacement rendered battered walls. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and cut-granite monolithic surround centred on keystone framing replacement glazed timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling, staircase on a dog leg plan with turned timber balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in turned timber newel, and timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in landscaped grounds with looped wrought iron railings to "cottage garden" centred on looped wrought iron gate.
Appraisal
A farmhouse representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of the rural environs of Monaseed with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a streamlined doorcase demonstrating good quality workmanship; and the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the very slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original or sympathetically replicated fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, adjacent outbuildings (extant 1839) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a neat self-contained ensemble having historic connections with the Fox family including James Fox (d. 1917), 'Farmer [and] Land Steward late of Craan [sic] County Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1917, 258).