Survey Data
Reg No
15701810
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Scientific, Social
Original Use
Steward's house
In Use As
House
Date
1830 - 1835
Coordinates
285745, 143808
Date Recorded
28/07/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay two-storey steward's house, built 1834, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay two-storey on a symmetrical plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Hipped gabled slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings including square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two (ground floor) or one-over-one (first floor) timber sash windows with six-over-six (ground floor) or two-over-two (first floor) timber sash windows to side (south) elevation having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with benchmark-inscribed cut-granite monolithic piers to perimeter supporting flat iron gate.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century built heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a featureless doorcase; and the very slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression with those openings showing pretty bipartite glazing patterns. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house having historic connections with a succession of stewards of the Woodbrook House estate including Thomas Davis (----), 'Land Steward' (NA 1901; NA 1911).