Survey Data
Reg No
15702411
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1700 - 1798
Coordinates
284074, 134693
Date Recorded
23/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement farmhouse, extant 1798, on a T-shaped plan originally three-bay two-storey on a rectangular plan with single-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey central return (east). Occupied, 1911. Extended, pre-1921, producing present composition. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched slate roof (east) with 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 pots, and no rainwater goods surviving on rendered slate flagged eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast battered walls over coursed rubble stone construction; diamond-scored rendered surface finish (east) on chamfered cushion course on creeper- or ivy-covered base with rendered quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening approached by flight of four overgrown cut-granite steps, concealed dressing framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (east) with concrete sills, and moulded rendered surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in unkempt grounds with lichen-covered cut-granite monolithic piers to perimeter.
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 somewhat featureless doorcase; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression: meanwhile, aspects of the composition clearly illustrate the continued development or "improvement" of the farmhouse in the early twentieth century. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, 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 farmhouse. Furthermore, an adjacent coach house-cum-stable outbuilding (extant 1902) continues to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble having historic connections with the O'Gorman family including James O'Gorman (----), 'Magistrate [and] Farmer' (NA 1911).