Survey Data
Reg No
15701431
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1800 - 1839
Coordinates
295337, 146292
Date Recorded
12/11/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1839, on a symmetrical plan. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having paired rendered stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and one-over-one or two-over-two timber sash windows. Hipped elliptical- or segmental-headed door opening in elliptical- or segmental-headed recess with timber mullions supporting timber transom, and timber panelled double doors having sidelights below overlight. Interior retaining timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in own grounds with boundary wall to "cottage garden" having coping supporting looped wrought iron railings [OS].
Appraisal
A farmhouse of modest size, sometimes known as "Tomadilly House", representing an interesting component of the domestic built heritage of rural County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the elongated rectilinear plan form centred on an elegant doorcase displaying good quality craftsmanship or joinery, and the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing prevail together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and allegedly to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of the farmhouse. Furthermore, a range of attendant outbuildings contributes positively to the group and setting values of a neat self-contained farmyard ensemble having historic connections with the Kennedy family including Michael Kennedy (b. 1851), 'Farmer' (NA 1911).