Survey Data
Reg No
15702724
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
309570, 136685
Date Recorded
08/01/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor. "Improved", pre-1903, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles terminating in red brick Running bond chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Fine roughcast battered walls. Square-headed window openings with lichen-spotted sills, and concealed dressings framing three-over-three (ground floor) or two-over-two (first floor) timber sash windows centred on two-over-two timber sash window (ground floor). Set in unkempt grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having moss-covered shallow pyramidal capping supporting flat iron "farm gate".
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 restrained doorcase, albeit one largely concealed behind a later porch; 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 tiered visual effect; and the high pitched roofline. 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 composition. Furthermore, adjacent "tin roofed" outbuildings (extant 1903) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a neat self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.