Drinagh Lodge

Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1782, on an L-shaped plan; single-bay (south) or two-bay (north) two-storey side elevations. Hipped fibre-cement slate roof on an L-shaped plan with concrete ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on slightly overhanging timber boarded eaves. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Segmental-headed central door opening with step threshold, bull nose-detailed timber doorcase, and concealed dressings having concave reveals framing timber boarded double doors having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed cast-iron double gates.

A farmhouse representing an important component of the late eighteenth-century domestic built heritage of the outskirts of Wexford with the architectural value of the composition confirmed by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a so-called "Morrison Doorcase" showing a simple looped hub-and-spoke fanlight (cf. 15605135); the diminishing in scale of the widely spaced openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the slightly oversailing roof. Having been well maintained, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character of the composition. Furthermore, adjacent limewashed outbuildings (----) continue to contribute to the setting of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in an increasingly industrialised street scene. NOTE: Occupied (7th July 1854) by James Clifford (----) and valued at £5 0s. 0d. with the Dowager Countess of Donoughmore named as the "Immediate Lessor" (Primary Valuation of Ireland). Occupied (1901; 1911) by William Clifford Furlong (----).