Survey Data
Reg No
15701005
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1839
Coordinates
298081, 156213
Date Recorded
08/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan originally three- or four-bay single-storey with half-dormer attic. Extended, pre-1904, producing present composition. Reroofed, ----. Now disused. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined battered walls. Square-headed door opening with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road with rendered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.
Appraisal
A farmhouse representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form; the feint battered silhouette; the somewhat 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: meanwhile, aspects of the composition clearly illustrate the continued linear development of the farmhouse in the later nineteenth century. 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 the composition. Furthermore, adjacent outbuildings (extant 1904) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a neat self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.