Survey Data
Reg No
15701419
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1790 - 1795
Coordinates
290440, 148224
Date Recorded
28/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay two-storey farmhouse, dated 1792, on a rectangular plan with single-bay two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1911. Vacated, 1978. Now in ruins. Hipped slate roof now missing with no rainwater goods surviving on slate flagged eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered lime rendered coursed rubble stone battered walls with concealed rough hewn granite flush quoins to corners centred on coursed rubble stone buttress. Hipped square-headed off-central door opening below cut-granite date stone ("1792") with slate hung dressings including timber lintel framing chevron- or saw tooth-detailed timber boarded door having sidelights. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing remains of six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds with rear (north) elevation fronting on to lane.
Appraisal
The shell of a farmhouse representing an important component of the domestic built heritage of County Wexford with the pseudo vernacular basis of the composition, one most likely predating its discreet date stone ("1792"), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone not only displaying a battered silhouette, but also a stout stabilising buttress; and the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression. Although reduced to an overgrown ruin following a prolonged period of unoccupancy in the later twentieth century, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with remnants of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding some of the character or integrity of a farmhouse making an increasingly forlorn visual statement in a sylvan street scene.