Survey Data
Reg No
15702802
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1780 - 1785
Coordinates
317030, 138764
Date Recorded
15/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, dated 1781, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1911. Renovated, ----. Replacement hipped artificial slate roof with ridge tiles, paired cement rendered central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta octagonal pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered, ruled and lined piers to perimeter having "Cavetto"-detailed shallow pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron double gates.
Appraisal
A farmhouse representing an integral component of the later eighteenth-century domestic built heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one rooted firmly in the contemporary Georgian fashion, suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a restrained doorcase showing a simple radial fanlight; and the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric: the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings, however, has not had a beneficial impact on the external expression or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, adjacent outbuildings (extant 1903) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble having historic connections with the Donohoe family including Peter Donohoe (d. 1888), 'Farmer late of Killencooley [sic] Kilmucbridge [sic] Gorey County Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1889, 180); and James Donohoe (----), 'Farmer' (NA 1911).