Survey Data
Reg No
15700731
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
318890, 160961
Date Recorded
27/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting windbreak. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Now disused. Hipped gabled slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles off-centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Cement rendered battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to corners. Square-headed central door opening with concrete threshold, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road on a corner site.
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of north County Wexford by such attributes as the rectilinear lobby entry plan form centred on a characteristic windbreak; the battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the high pitched roof showing a rough cut slate 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 a farmhouse making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.