Survey Data
Reg No
15702106
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1906 - 1921
Coordinates
305527, 144061
Date Recorded
13/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1921, on a rectangular plan with three-bay two-storey rear (north) elevation. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" quoined piers to corners. Square-headed central door opening with concrete step threshold, and rendered "bas-relief" surround framing replacement glazed aluminium door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (north) elevation with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from road with rendered piers to perimeter having stepped capping.
Appraisal
A farmhouse representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century domestic built heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a featureless doorcase; and 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. Having been reasonably well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a farmhouse making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.