Survey Data
Reg No
15701208
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
315854, 152857
Date Recorded
08/02/2007
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 lean-to windbreak. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having stringcourse below capping, lichen-spotted concrete or rendered coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on rendered eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined. Square-headed central door opening with overgrown threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. 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 compact rectilinear lobby entry plan form centred on a characteristic windbreak; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the slight diminishing in scale of the centralised openings on each floor producing a feint graduated tiered visual effect; and the high pitched 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 a farmhouse making a pleasing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in a rural street scene.