Survey Data
Reg No
15704821
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house
Historical Use
House
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
310792, 111374
Date Recorded
01/06/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached six-bay two-storey over basement Church of Ireland glebe house, extant 1840, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height return (south). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Modified, ----, producing present composition. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, lichen-spotted coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes centred on rendered chimney stack having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Gritdashed roughcast wall to front (north) elevation on rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to ends supporting rendered band to eaves; roughcast surface finish (remainder). Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Set in unkempt landscaped grounds.
Appraisal
A glebe house representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century built heritage of south County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, 'a very delightful residence...in a richly-planted lawn' (Lacy 1863, 443-4), confirmed by such attributes as the symmetrical frontage centred on a much modified doorcase; and the uniform or near-uniform proportions of the openings on each floor. Having been reasonably well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including crown or cylinder glazing panels in hornless sash frames, thus upholding the character or integrity of a glebe house having historic connections with the Kilscoran parish Church of Ireland clergy including Reverend Gerald Fitzgerald (d. 1872; Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society 1861 III, 45); Reverend Hugh Stewart (d. 1878), 'Clerk late of Kilscoran County Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1880, 687); Reverend David Francis Killingley (d. 1947); and Reverend Thomas Edward Gerard Condell (----), 'Clergyman' (NA 1901; NA 1911).