Survey Data
Reg No
15701136
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1839
Coordinates
314668, 156947
Date Recorded
08/07/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1839, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Now disused. Pitched slate roof including gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic; pitched (gabled) slate roof (windbreak), clay ridge tiles off-centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having stringcourse below capping, decorative timber bargeboards to gables with finials now missing, and no rainwater goods surviving on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Fine roughcast battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with overgrown threshold, and concealed dressings including timber lintel framing timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing boarded-up three-over-three (ground floor) or one-over-one (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows. Set back from road in unkempt grounds.
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of County Wexford by such attributes as the rectilinear lobby entry plan form centred on a characteristic windbreak; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a battered silhouette with a failing surface finish revealing sections of "daub" or mud; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the miniature gablets embellishing the roofline. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, adjacent "tin roofed" outbuildings (extant 1839) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a neat self-contained ensemble making a pleasing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in a rural street scene.