farm house

Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Vacated, 2007. Now disused. Tar-covered hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles extending into clay ridge tiles, rendered off-central chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping, and no rainwater goods surviving on limewashed slate flagged eaves. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening in round-headed recess with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two (ground floor) or three-over-six (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows. Set perpendicular to road.

A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of south County Wexford by such attributes as the alignment perpendicular to the road; the rectilinear lobby entry plan form off-centred on a characteristic windbreak; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone displaying a feint battered silhouette; the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a tar-covered rough cut slate finish.