Survey Data
Reg No
15701516
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
296397, 148822
Date Recorded
08/10/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Attached three-bay single-storey lobby entry farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed windbreak. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles centred on fine roughcast chimney stack having rendered capping, rendered coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on fine roughcast slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Fine roughcast battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows; (north): Attached two- or three-bay two-storey house, extant 1904, on a rectangular plan with single-bay two-storey rear (west) elevation. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, lichen-spotted rendered coping to gables with red brick Running bond chimney stack to apex (north) having corbelled stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on fine roughcast slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Fine roughcast walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Road fronted on a corner site.
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 feint battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the uniform or near-uniform proportions of the openings on each floor; and the high pitched roofline.