Candy Cottage

Detached five-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1841, on a rectangular plan. Renovated, ----. Replacement pitched and hipped water reed thatch roof with exposed lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping, rendered coping to gable (west), and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Rendered battered walls; limewashed roughcast surface finish to rear (north) elevation. Square-headed central door opening with rendered lintel framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and rendered lintels framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed window opening to rear (north) elevation with concealed dressings including timber lintel framing six-over-six timber sash window having part exposed sash box. Interior including kitchen retaining timber surrounds to windows openings framing timber panelled splayed reveals, hearth with timber bressemer, and timber boarded vaulted ceiling. Set perpendicular to road with roughcast piers to perimeter having rendered rounded capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron gate.

A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of County Waterford by such attributes as the alignment perpendicular to the road; the rectilinear direct entry plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone displaying a feint battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior: however, the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, an opposing "tin roofed" outbuilding (----) continues to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.