Survey Data
Reg No
15701139
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1835 - 1840
Coordinates
314827, 154764
Date Recorded
16/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey farmhouse with half-dormer attic, built 1836; extant 1839, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. Occupied, 1901. Leased, 1911. Renovated, ----, producing present composition. Hipped gabled slate roof with clay ridge tiles off-centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pot, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Roughcast battered walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated rendered piers to ends. Square-headed off-central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement two-over-two sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in landscaped grounds perpendicular to road.
Appraisal
A farmhouse erected by George Wellington Warren (1800-88) representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one 'containing a small room known as the "Preacher's Room" since it was reserved for the hospitality of wandering [Methodist] preachers' (Rowe and Scallan 2004, 695), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear footprint; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the high pitched roofline: meanwhile, such traits as the alignment perpendicular to the road; the potential lobby entry plan form; and the feint battered silhouette, all imply the vernacular basis of the farmhouse. Furthermore, adjacent outbuildings (extant 1839) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble having historic connections with the Warren family including Edward Wesley Warren (1853-1904), 'Farmer late of Springmount Gorey County Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1905, 501).