farm house

Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1841, on a rectangular plan. Pitched and hipped thatch roof with exposed lattice stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, red brick Running bond chimney stack having stringcourse below capping, rendered coping to gable (south), and blind stretchers to chicken wire-covered eaves having blind scallops. Rendered, ruled and lined battered walls with rendered strips to corners. Square-headed door opening with rendered surround centred on stone-encrusted keystone framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills, and rendered surrounds centred on stone-encrusted keystones framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set perpendicular to road with rendered, ruled and lined piers to perimeter having rounded capping supporting 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 lobby entry plan form; 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 thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, a courtyard of "tin roofed" outbuildings (----) continues to contribute positively to the setting of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.