Survey Data
Reg No
31312113
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1841 - 1894
Coordinates
118195, 257081
Date Recorded
16/12/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1894, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. Reroofed. Pitched roof with replacement straw thatch, rope twist above exposed hazel or sally lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, rendered, ruled and lined chimney stack having "Cavetto"-detailed stringcourse below capping, and concrete or rendered coping to gables. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls over coursed rubble limestone construction. Square-headed window openings with rock faced cut-limestone sills[?], and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed opposing door openings with fittings not visible. Road fronted with concrete verge to front.
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the nineteenth-century vernacular heritage of Kildun by such traits as the compact rectilinear direct entry plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone demonstrating a feint battered silhouette; and the high pitched roof showing a replenished thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, an adjacent outbuilding (extant 1894) continues to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a neat self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.