farm house

Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1924. Resold, 1979. Vacated, 1999. Now disused. Hipped slate roof including gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gablets with timber finials to apexes, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on roughcast eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast battered walls; rendered surface finish to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed off-central door opening with overgrown threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in unkempt grounds.

A farmhouse representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of the environs of Camolin with the underlying vernacular basis of the composition suggested by such attributes as the rectilinear lobby entry plan form off-centred on a characteristic windbreak; the feint battered silhouette; the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the miniature gablets embellishing a high pitched roofline. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, adjacent outbuildings (extant 1904); and iron work supplied by Kennan and Sons Engineering Works (established 1790s; closed 1980s) of Fishamble Street, Dublin, all continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a neat self-contained ensemble having historic connections with the Doran family including Thomas Joseph Doran (1861-1923), 'Farmer' (NA 1901; NA 1911; cf. 15701121).