Survey Data
Reg No
15703305
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1799 - 1840
Coordinates
307065, 130433
Date Recorded
21/01/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Vacant, 2007. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls. Venetian door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and flush surround framing timber panelled door having fanlight with one-over-one timber sash sidelights. Square-headed window openings originally in bipartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, and flush surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Paired square-headed window openings (gable ends) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.
Appraisal
A farmhouse representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-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 restrained Venetian doorcase showing a simple hub-and-spoke fanlight; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by uniform or near-uniform proportions of the widely spaced openings on each floor with those openings originally showing multipartite glazing patterns; and the high pitched roof.