Survey Data
Reg No
15701926
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
292654, 143183
Date Recorded
23/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey double-pile farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1919. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with red brick Running bond chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, and no rainwater goods surviving on rendered slate flagged eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined battered walls. Segmental-headed central door opening with concrete threshold, and cut-granite block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in landscaped grounds with cast-iron colonette piers to forecourt having finial-topped capping supporting wrought iron double gates.
Appraisal
A farmhouse representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a streamlined Classical doorcase demonstrating good quality workmanship; the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the high pitched roof showing a small cut slate finish. 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 the composition. Furthermore, bellcote-topped outbuildings (extant 1903) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble having historic connections with the Whitney family including Elliott Elmes Whitney (d. 1882), 'late of Woodlands Enniscorthy County Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1882, 779); and Benjamin Jones Whitney (d. 1918), 'Gentleman Farmer late of Woodlands Monart Enniscorthy County Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1918, n.p.).